Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center

描述（由申请人提供）：这个卓越的农业疾病和伤害研究，教育和预防，上中西部农业安全和健康中心（UMASH）的新中心的建议建立五个突出机构之间的正式合作;明尼苏达大学公共卫生学院，明尼苏达大学兽医学院，马什菲尔德诊所国家农场医学中心，明尼苏达州卫生部和威斯康星州大学。这些机构带来了独特的和互补的资源，以解决现有的和新出现的职业健康和安全问题的农业。UMASH将首先关注与畜牧业生产相关的健康和安全问题。申请新中心的一个中心主题是 生产实践主要是由社会、经济和动物健康因素驱动的，与工作场所的健康和安全条件之间的相互关系。 该中心的总体目标是： 1.建立一个农业健康和安全英才中心，以建设有关机构的能力和利用其专门知识。 2.制定整体方案，以提高对农业生产中给工人和生产者造成健康和经济负担的安全和健康危害的认识和控制。 3.改善农业工人健康管理，以防发生有害接触或伤害。 4.更好地理解工人健康、动物健康和生产之间的关系 5.改善农业、公共卫生和医疗保健利益攸关方之间的沟通，以解决农业职业健康和安全方面现有的和新出现的问题 公共卫生相关性：农业工作可能是危险的。随着农业的发展，以满足日益增长的全球粮食需求，农业劳动力面临的职业健康风险将随着一些危害被消除和其他危害的出现而发生变化。了解这些变化对于保护农业工人及其家人的健康至关重要。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal for a new Center of Excellence in Agricultural Disease and Injury Research, Education, and Prevention, the Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (UMASH) builds formal collaborations among five prominent institutions; The University of Minnesota School of Public Health, University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, the National Farm Medicine Center of the Marshfield Clinic, the Minnesota Department of Health, and the University of Wisconsin. These institutions bring unique and complimentary resources to address existing and emerging occupational health and safety issues in agriculture. UMASH will initially focus on health and safety issues related to animal agriculture production. A central theme for the application for a new Center will be the interrelationship between the production practices, which are primarily driven by social, economic and animal health considerations, and the health and safety conditions in the workplace. The overall goals of the Center are to: 1. Establish an agriculture health and safety Center of excellence to build capacity and leverage the expertise of the institutions involved. 2. Develop holistic programs to improve the recognition and control of safety and health hazards in agriculture production that create a health and economic burden to workers and producers. 3. Improve management of agriculture worker health in the event of adverse exposures or injuries. 4. Develop a better understanding of the relationship between worker health, animal health and production 5. Improve communication between stakeholders in agriculture, public health, and health care to address existing and emerging issues in occupational health and safety in agriculture PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Agriculture work can be hazardous. As agriculture evolves to meet increasing global food demand, the occupational health risks encountered by the agricultural work force will evolve with some hazards being eliminated and others emerging. Understanding these changes is essential to protecting the health of agriculture workers and their families.