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（WCAHS）的总体目标是改善西部农业中农民，农场家庭成员和雇佣农场工人及其家人的健康和安全。西部农业包括与该国其他大部分地区不同的做法和劳动力。加州大学戴维斯分校是独特的位置，以解决这些问题，因为它的医学和兽医学院，农业和环境科学学院的共同定位，并在世界上最具生产力的农业地区的位置。该中心教师的多学科专业知识使各种各样的，主要是面向实地的研究项目和干预措施。该中心努力的几个领域特别值得注意，包括雇用（移民）农场工人的双语/双文化健康和安全工作，在旱地农业环境中暴露的呼吸道疾病，以及工程更好的人体工程学解决方案，以减少急性和累积性创伤。这一更新的一个主要努力是一个潜在的移民西班牙裔农场工人和他们的家庭队列。这项重要的研究将允许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。该研究将与其他中心项目整合，解决有毒，人体工程学和环境因素，并已吸引了牙科和营养健康的附加研究。另一项新的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。我们将继续描述西方农业中呼吸道毒物的特征，并将这些发现应用于农场。将开发更新和更有效的农药生物测定法，并将其与农业工人接触农药的研究联系起来。该中心将继续其创新的教育工作，以改善健康和安全培训，以非英语为母语的农场工人。农业是最危险的职业之一，在加州雇佣了100多万工人。该中心具有直接的公共卫生重要性，通过增加对导致这一人群疾病的原因的了解，并将这些发现应用于为减少人群中的伤害和疾病而制定的干预措施。

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.