The Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety at UC Davis

加州大学戴维斯分校西部农业健康与安全中心

• 批准号: 7282427
• 负责人: Marc B Schenker
• 金额: $ 94.29万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-30 至 2011-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7282427
• 关键词: Western; Center; Agricultural; Health; Safety

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of The Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety (WCAHS) at UC Davis is to improve the health and safety of farmers, farm family members, and hired farmworkers and their families in western agriculture. Western agriculture includes practices and a workforce different from much of the rest of the country. UC Davis is uniquely situated to address these issues because of the co-location of its Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and its location in the most productive agricultural region in the world. The multidisciplinary expertise of the Center faculty enables varied, largely field-oriented research projects and interventions. Several areas of Center efforts have been of particular note including bilingual/bicultural health and safety efforts among hired (immigrant) farmworkers, respiratory disease from exposures in dry farming environments, and engineering better ergonomic solutions to reduce acute and cumulative trauma injuries. A major effort of this renewal is a prospective cohort of immigrant Hispanic farmworkers and their families. This important study will allow determination of disease and injury risks, including the contribution of environmental, behavioral and healthcare related factors. The study will integrate with other Center projects addressing toxic, ergonomic and environmental factors, and has already attracted add-on studies of dental and nutritional health. Another new study will evaluate exposures and respiratory disease in large dairies, a major change in California agriculture that raises concerns among workers and nearby residents. The Center will continue its successful 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 farmworkers. Agriculture is one of the most hazardous occupations, and employs 1+ million workers in California. This Center has a direct public health importance by increasing the understanding of what causes disease in this population, and applying those findings to interventions developed to reduce injury and illness in the population.

描述（由申请人提供）：加州大学戴维斯分校的西方农业健康与安全中心（WCAHS）的总体目标是改善农民，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。西方农业包括实践和与该国其他大部分地区不同的劳动力。加州大学戴维斯分校（UC Davis）独特地解决了这些问题，因为其医学和兽医学院，农业和环境科学学院以及其在世界上最有生产力的农业地区的位置。该中心教师的多学科专业知识使各种以现场为导向的研究项目和干预措施。特别值得注意的是中心努力的几个领域，包括雇用的（移民）农场工人的双语/双文化健康和安全工作，在干燥农业环境中暴露的呼吸道疾病以及工程更好的人体工程学解决方案，以减少急性和累积性创伤伤害。这种更新的重大努力是一群前瞻性的西班牙裔农场工人及其家人。这项重要的研究将允许确定疾病和伤害风险，包括环境，行为和医疗保健相关因素的贡献。该研究将与其他中心项目集成，以解决有毒，人体工程学和环境因素，并已经吸引了对牙科和营养健康的附加研究。另一项新的研究将评估大型奶牛的暴露和呼吸道疾病，这是加利福尼亚农业的重大变化，引起了工人和附近居民的关注。该中心将继续成功地为劳动密集型农业的肌肉骨骼压力设计更好的工程解决方案，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。农业是最危险的职业之一，在加利福尼亚州雇用1多名工人。该中心通过增加对该人群疾病的理解的了解，并将这些发现应用于为减少人群的伤害和疾病而开发的干预措施，从而具有直接的公共健康重要性。