The Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety-Renewal

西部农业健康与安全中心更新

• 批准号: 8518065
• 负责人: Marc B Schenker
• 金额: $ 193.6万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-30 至 2016-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8518065
• 关键词: Western; Center; Agricultural; Health; Safety

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Western agriculture is the most intensive and productive in the world, but differs in many ways from the rest of the country. The overall goal of the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety (WCAHS) at DC Davis Is to improve the health and safety of farmers, farm family members, and hired farm workers and their families in western agriculture. UC Davis is uniquely situated to address these issues because of the co-location of its Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, and the Colleges of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and Engineering. It is located in the heart of California's Central Valley. The multidisciplinary expertise of the Center faculty enables varied, largely field-oriente research projects, educational programs and interventions. Areas of focus include creating bilingual/bicultural health and safety programs and materials for immigrant farm workers, exploring the link between respiratory disease and exposures in Western farming environments, and engineering better ergonomic solutions to reduce acute and cumulative trauma injuries. A major effort of this renewal is a new multidisciplinary proposal to understand and develop effective interventions to prevent heat-related illness among agricultural workers. Another new study will evaluate exposures and respiratory disease in new laying-hen facilities. We will continue our efforts to design better-engineered solutions to the musculoskeletal stresses of labor-intensive agriculture, and to transfer this improved technology to the workplace. We will continue to characterize respiratory toxicants in Western agriculture, and to apply these findings to the farm. Newer and more efficient pesticide bioassays will be developed, and linked to studies of exposure to agricultural workers. The Center will continue its innovative educational efforts to improve health and safety training to non-English speaking farm workers, and an exciting new proposal will link us with the Health Initiative of the Americas to take our educational programs to new immigrant workers via novel, community-based approaches. Center efforts are characterized and disseminated by many novel and diverse media (webpage, newsletter, podcasts, social media, etc.). The success of all Center activities will be evaluated i a comprehensive evaluation program.

描述（由申请人提供）：西方农业是世界上最密集和富有成效的，但与该国其他地区有很多不同。总体目标 DC Davis的西部农业健康与安全中心（WCAHS）是为了改善农民，农场家庭成员的健康和安全，并雇用了西方农业的农场工人及其家人。加州大学戴维斯分校（UC Davis）独一无二地解决了这些问题，因为其医学和兽医学院的共同位置以及农业和环境科学学院以及工程学。它位于加利福尼亚中央山谷的中心。该中心教师的多学科专业知识使多样化的，在很大程度上是现场的研究项目，教育计划和干预措施。重点领域包括为移民农场工人创建双语/双文化健康和安全计划以及材料，探索呼吸道疾病与西方农业环境中的暴露之间的联系，以及工程更好的人体工程学解决方案，以减少急性和累积的创伤伤害。这种更新的重大努力是一项新的多学科提案，旨在了解和制定有效的干预措施，以防止农业工作者中的热有关疾病。另一项新的研究将评估新铺设设施中的暴露和呼吸道疾病。我们将继续努力为劳动密集型农业的肌肉骨骼压力设计更好的设计解决方案，并将这一改进的技术转移到工作场所。我们将继续描述西方农业中的呼吸有毒物质，并将这些发现应用于农场。将开发更新，更有效的农药生物测定，并与接触农业工人的研究有关。该中心将继续其创新的教育努力，以改善对非英语农场工人的健康和安全培训，而令人兴奋的新提案将与美洲的健康计划联系起来，将我们的教育计划通过基于社区的小说，基于社区的方法将我们的教育计划带给新的移民工人。中心的努力是由许多新颖和多样化的媒体（网页，新闻通讯，播客，社交媒体等）来表征和传播的。所有中心活动的成功将得到评估，这是一个全面的评估计划。