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西部农业健康与安全中心(WCAHS)的总体目标是改善西部农业中农民、农场家庭成员和受雇农场工人及其家人的健康和安全。西部农业包括不同于美国其他地区的做法和劳动力。加州大学戴维斯分校是解决这些问题的得天独厚的地理位置，因为它的医学院和兽医学院、农业和环境科学学院位于世界上产量最高的农业地区。该中心教职员工的多学科专业知识使各种主要面向实地的研究项目和干预措施成为可能。中心努力的几个领域特别值得注意，包括在受雇(移民)农场工人中开展双语/双文化健康和安全工作，减少因暴露在旱地农业环境中而导致的呼吸道疾病，以及设计更好的人体工程学解决方案来减少急性和累积创伤伤害。这次更新的一个主要努力是未来的移民拉美裔农场工人及其家人队列。这项重要的研究将能够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。这项研究将与其他解决有毒、人体工程学和环境因素的中心项目相结合，并已经吸引了额外的牙科和营养健康研究。另一项新研究将评估大型奶牛场的暴露和呼吸道疾病，这是加州农业的一个重大变化，引起了工人和附近居民的担忧。该中心将继续其成功的努力，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，并将这种改进的技术转移到工作场所。我们将继续对西方农业中的呼吸道毒物进行表征，并将这些发现应用于农场。将开发更新、更有效的农药生物检测方法，并将其与农业工人接触的研究联系起来。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了100多万工人。该中心通过增加对该人群中致病原因的了解，并将这些发现应用于为减少人群中的伤害和疾病而开发的干预措施，具有直接的公共卫生重要性。