Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health

项目概要/摘要-大平原农业卫生中心（总体） 大平原农业健康中心进行研究，并提供推广，以减少 中西部农业生产者面临的伤害和疾病负担，特别是与 大、小行作物和牲畜/动物生产。该中心将服务于一个九州地区：谁 具有这些生产相似性：伊利诺伊州、印第安纳州、爱荷华州、堪萨斯、明尼苏达州、密苏里州、内布拉斯加州、俄亥俄州， 和威斯康星州。我们的安全和健康的农业社区的愿景是通过基本的 和应用研究，使用参与式方法，以及理论驱动的教育和翻译活动。 我们的研究项目旨在解决对NIOSH国家战略 优先考虑和优先考虑我们地区的农业劳动力。提出的研究问题将：减少 从拖拉机使用一辈子的背部疼痛的负担，提供资源，以帮助家庭老龄化的农民 在痴呆症的多个阶段过渡到更安全的工作，提供工具，帮助农民识别和减少高- 在他们的物理环境中的风险危害，减少道路上的农用车辆造成的伤害，并改善 畜牧生产者及其饲养的动物的呼吸系统健康。研究建议开发创新 填补知识（全身振动）、危险意识（安全） 清单应用程序），和设备（空气质量系统），和创新的伙伴关系（例如，老年痴呆症协会， 州推广健康教育工作者）带来了具有独特技能的新合作者， 还原整个中心项目和核心的伙伴关系，包括咨询委员会和焦点小组 与会者将提供必要的信息，以促进正在开发和/或测试的工具的采用 在中心的投资组合中。从我们的研究举措中吸取的经验教训将转化为外联活动 将材料纳入国家教育课程，通过合作伙伴传播， 纳入多媒体讨论（社交媒体、平面媒体-安全观察和FarmSafe播客）， 协助传播和采纳这些最佳做法。该中心将建立和支持系统， 促进沟通，确定和建立战略伙伴关系，并评估农业部门的需求 社区我们的评估人员将在所有项目和核心中工作，以最大限度地提高我们评估中心的能力。 为改善本地区农民的健康和安全成果做出贡献。大平原中心 农业卫生已经证明了它对改进知识和做法以保护 整个中西部农业工人的健康和安全，我们处于理想的位置， 区域合作者，制定和传播循证实践、指南和控制措施， 保护这一重要的劳动力。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT – GREAT PLAINS CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL HEALTH (OVERALL) The Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health conducts research and provides outreach to reduce the burden of injury and illness facing Midwest agricultural producers, particularly those hazards associated with both large and small row crop and livestock/animal production. This Center will serve a nine-state region: who share these production similarities: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Our vision of safe and healthy agricultural communities is accomplished through basic and applied research, use of participatory approaches, and theory-driven education and translation activities. Our research projects are designed to address multiple hazards important to both the NIOSH national strategic priorities and priorities for our region’s farming workforce. The research questions being proposed will: reduce the burden of back pain from a lifetime of tractor use, provide resources to help families of aging farmers transition to safer work at multiple stages of dementia, provide tools to help farmers identify and reduce high- risk hazards in their physical environment, reduce injuries from farm vehicles on roadways, and improve the respiratory health of livestock producers and the animals they raise. Research proposes to develop innovative technologies needed to close gaps in knowledge (whole-body vibration), awareness of hazards (safety checklist app), and equipment (air quality systems), and innovative partnerships (e.g., Alzheimer’s Association, state extension health educators) bring new collaborators with unique skills to contribute to agricultural injury reduction. Partnerships throughout the Center projects and cores, including advisory boards and focus group participants, will provide essential information to enhance the adoption of tools being developed and/or tested across the Center portfolio. The lessons learned from our research initiatives will be translated into outreach materials by being incorporated into national educational curricula, disseminated through partners, and incorporated into multimedia discussions (social media, print media-Safety Watch, and FarmSafe podcasts) to aid in the dissemination and uptake of these best practices. The Center will establish and support systems to foster communication, identify and build strategic partnerships, and assess the needs of the agricultural community. Our evaluators will work within all projects and Cores to maximize our ability assess the Center’s contributions to improved health and safety outcomes for our region’s farmers. The Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health has demonstrated its contributions to improving knowledge and practices to protect the health and safety of agricultural workers throughout the Midwest, and we are ideally positioned, with strong regional collaborators, to generate and disseminate evidence-based practices, guidelines, and controls to protect this essential workforce.