Greate Plains Center for Agricultural Health and Safety-Renewal

描述(由申请人提供)：爱荷华大学大平原农业健康中心是一家国家认可的资源，在制定和实施研究、干预、翻译、教育和推广计划以预防农业工人及其家人的职业伤害和疾病方面有着既定的记录。该中心满足中西部爱荷华州、密苏里州、堪萨斯州、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农业工人的健康和安全需求。这些州构成了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.开展多学科的农业健康与安全研究计划，以国家农业健康与安全研究重点为目标。2.制定和评估教育、外展和干预方案，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、兽医和医生传授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.向卫生安全专业人员和社区农业卫生组织提供研究方法、培训和教育方面的农业卫生与安全技术援助和咨询。5.保持和加强与学术机构、州和联邦机构以及国际组织中的卫生专业人员的联系，以促进农业健康和安全研究、培训和预防方案。

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.