Greate Plains Center for Agricultural Health and Safety-Renewal

大平原农业健康与安全中心更新

• 批准号: 8517239
• 负责人: Fredric Gerr
• 金额: $ 3.65万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
• 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/8517239
• 关键词: Greate; Plains; Center; Agricultural; Health

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health at The University of Iowa is a nationally recognized resource with an established record of developing and implementing programs of research, intervention, translation, education, and outreach to prevent occupational injury and illness among agricultural workers and their families. The Center addresses the health and safety needs of agricultural workers in the Midwestern states of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, and North Dakota. These states constitute America's most agriculturally intensive region. The overall goals of the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health are to: 1. Conduct a multidisciplinary agricultural health and safety research program targeting national research priorities for agricultural health and safety. 2. Develop and evaluate educational, outreach, and intervention programs to prevent disease, injury, and hazardous exposures among agricultural workers and their family members. 3. Serve as a national resource for delivery of current agricultural health knowledge and expertise to industrial hygienists, epidemiologists, ergonomists, veterinarians, and physicians to enhance the national capacity to meet the agricultural health needs of the nation. 4. Provide agricultural health and safety technical assistance and consultation in research methods, training, and education to health and safety professionals and community-based agricultural health organizations. 5. Maintain and strengthen linkages with health professionals in academic institutions, state and federal agencies, and international organizations to promote agricultural health and safety research, training, and prevention programs.

描述（由申请人提供）：爱荷华州大学的大平原农业健康中心是一个国家认可的资源，具有开发和实施研究，干预，翻译，教育和推广计划的既定记录，以防止农业工人及其家庭的职业伤害和疾病。该中心致力于满足中西部各州农业工人的健康和安全需求，包括爱荷华州、密苏里州、堪萨斯、内布拉斯加州、伊利诺伊州、威斯康星州、明尼苏达州、南达科他州和北达科他州。这些州是美国农业最密集的地区。大平原农业健康中心的总体目标是：1。开展多学科农业健康和安全研究计划，针对农业健康和安全的国家研究重点。2.制定和评估教育，推广和干预计划，以预防农业工人及其家庭成员的疾病，伤害和危险暴露。3.作为一个国家资源，向工业卫生学家、流行病学家、人体工程学家、兽医和医生提供当前的农业卫生知识和专业知识，以提高国家满足国家农业卫生需求的能力。4.向健康和安全专业人员以及社区农业卫生组织提供农业健康和安全技术援助和研究方法咨询、培训和教育。5.保持和加强与学术机构、州和联邦机构以及国际组织的卫生专业人员的联系，以促进农业卫生和安全研究、培训和预防计划。