Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention, and Education

描述(由申请人提供)：西南农业健康、伤害预防和教育中心(西南农业健康、伤害预防和教育中心)是位于泰勒的德克萨斯大学健康科学中心的一个成熟的中心。西南农业中心已经建立了包括阿肯色州、路易斯安那州、新墨西哥州、俄克拉何马州和德克萨斯州在内的第六公共卫生区作为其服务区。研究、干预、翻译项目以及外联计划一直在这些州进行。斯瓦格中心的使命是：提高农林渔业工人的安全和健康。这是通过一项研究、干预、教育和外联活动的综合计划来实现的，该计划利用战略合作伙伴网络，这些合作伙伴代表了该地区不同工人群体和广泛的农业生产的利益。该中心的定位是扩大其与行业细分市场、利益相关者团体和支持组织的联系。拟议的工作范围是对当前资金公告的回应，并围绕“建立战略伙伴关系以改善农业、林业和渔业工人的安全和健康”这一主题进行安排。该中心汇集了一支由员工、内部和外部顾问组成的经验丰富的领导团队，在一个组织结构中促进了一个具有凝聚力、协调性和协同性的运营计划。研究项目包括评估现有数据和差距，以制定AFF健康指标，青少年拉美裔农场工人的神经运动功能和急性损伤，以及有机粉尘引起的肺部炎症反应。强有力的区域伙伴关系将有助于对西南地区的伐木装载机进行安全干预，并传播预防热应激的干预战略。合作伙伴将利用教育方法改善OK农民和牧场主的安全做法，增加家禽养殖场工人对呼吸器的使用，并展示社会营销的有效性，以促进越南商业渔民采用工作实践。中心的影响将通过一个可行的方案扩大，扩大拟议的工作范围，并对新出现的问题作出反应。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention and Education (SW Ag Center) is a well established Center based at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler. The SW Ag Center has established as its service area Public Health Region VI that includes Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Research, intervention, and translation projects as well as outreach programs have been conducted in each of those states consistently. The mission of the SWAg Center is: To improve the safety and health of agricultural, forestry and fishing workers. This is accomplished through an integrated program of research, intervention, education and outreach activities that engage and leverage a network of strategic partners who represent the interests of a diverse worker population and a wide range of agricultural production in the region. The Center is positioned to expand its connections with industry segments, stakeholder groups, and support organizations. The proposed scope of work is responsive to the current funding announcement and is organized around the theme "Building Strategic Partnerships to Improve Agricultural, Forestry, and Fishing Worker Safety and Health". The Center brings together an experienced leadership team of staff, Internal and External Advisors in an organizational structure that facilitates a cohesive, coordinated and synergistic program of operation. Research projects include assessment of available data and gaps in order to develop AFF Health Indicators, neuromotor function and acute injury among adolescent Hispanic farmworkers, and organic dust induced inflammatory responses in the lung. Strong regional partnerships will contribute to safety interventions for logging loaders in the Southwest and dissemination heat stress prevention intervention strategies. Partners will be engaged to use educational approaches to improve safety practices among OK farmers and ranchers, increase respirator use among poultry house workers, and demonstrate the effectiveness of social marketing to promote adoption of work practices among Vietnamese commercial fishermen. The Center's impact will be expanded by a Feasibilty program that augments the proposed scope of work and is responsive to emerging issues.