Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention and Education

西南农业卫生、伤害预防和教育中心

• 批准号: 7477990
• 负责人: JEFFREY L. LEVIN
• 金额: $ 106.79万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH CTR AT TYLER
• 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/7477990
• 关键词: Southwest; Center; Agricultural; Health; Injury

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The NIOSH Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention, and Education (SW Center) at The University of Texas Health Center at Tyler (UTHCT), is completing its tenth year of operation, serving U.S. Public Health Region VI including Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. The work of the SW Center will continue to be characterized by: 1) strong regional involvement through collaborative partnerships with a multi-disciplinary team of researchers affiliated with institutions throughout the five-state region and along the largest segment of shared border with Mexico; 2) highly participatory external and internal advisory boards; and 3) a scope of work addressing special worker populations. This SW Center proposal is responsive to the current Program Announcement in numerous respects. The theme of the Center, "Innovative Approaches to Address Workers in Special Agricultural Populations," reflects how the outreach activities, projects, and merit-based pilot program study areas will address a number of issues characterizing the diversity of agriculture and populations in this region. Research projects cover a wide array of topics- the study of chronic disease indicators among migrant adolescent farm workers, agricultural chemical and contaminant influences on gene expression, worker health protection among shrimp fishermen of the Gulf Coast, and exposure and health assessment in cattle finishing operations. Prevention/intervention projects will examine health factors influencing the work risks for agricultural aviators, the impact of health messages on health protection and risk reduction of youth in agricultural environments, and deriving competencies in agricultural health issues for community health workers or promotoras. Education/translation projects include establishing model farms for pesticide education on the Navajo Nation and effective methods of educating foresters and loggers in hearing conservation. Many of these projects have synergies and rely upon acquiring and analyzing data relative to risk, addressing the challenges of building stakeholder partnerships, reaching farming populations, developing culturally appropriate tools for motivating change through community input, and evaluating outcomes from these efforts. The SW Center is poised in the coming grant cycle to deliver an integrated program whose administration and projects "will address the entire continuum of a problem from identification/causation through translation."

描述（由申请人提供）：NIOSH西南中心农业健康，伤害预防和教育（SW中心）在得克萨斯州健康中心在泰勒（UTHCT）的大学，正在完成其第十年的运作，服务于美国公共卫生第六区，包括阿肯色州，路易斯安那州，新墨西哥州，俄克拉荷马州和得克萨斯州。SW中心的工作将继续具有以下特点：1）通过与隶属于五州地区和沿着与墨西哥共享边界的最大部分的机构的多学科研究人员团队的合作伙伴关系，进行强有力的区域参与; 2）高度参与性的外部和内部咨询委员会;以及3）解决特殊工人群体的工作范围。本SW中心提案在许多方面都是对当前计划公告的响应。该中心的主题是“创新方法来解决特殊农业人口中的工人”，反映了外联活动，项目和基于绩效的试点计划研究领域将如何解决该地区农业和人口多样性的一些问题。研究项目涵盖了广泛的主题-研究移民青少年农场工人的慢性病指标、农业化学品和污染物对基因表达的影响、墨西哥湾沿岸捕虾渔民的工人健康保护，以及牛精加工作业中的接触和健康评估。预防/干预项目将审查影响农业飞行员工作风险的健康因素，健康信息对农业环境中青年健康保护和风险降低的影响，以及社区卫生工作者或宣传员在农业健康问题上的能力。教育/翻译项目包括建立示范农场，对纳瓦霍族进行杀虫剂教育，并采取有效方法对林业工作者和伐木工人进行听力保护教育。其中许多项目具有协同作用，并依赖于获取和分析与风险有关的数据，应对建立利益攸关方伙伴关系的挑战，接触农业人口，开发文化上适当的工具，通过社区投入推动变革，并评估这些努力的成果。SW中心准备在即将到来的赠款周期提供一个综合计划，其管理和项目“将解决从识别/因果关系到翻译的整个连续性问题。"