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（SW Ag中心）是一个完善的中心，总部设在得克萨斯大学健康科学中心泰勒。SW Ag中心已将其服务区域公共卫生区域VI建立为包括阿肯色州、路易斯安那州、新墨西哥州、俄克拉荷马州和得克萨斯州的服务区域。研究、干预和翻译项目以及外联方案一直在这些州进行。SWAg中心的使命是：改善农业、林业和渔业工人的安全和健康。这是通过研究，干预，教育和推广活动的综合方案来实现的，这些活动涉及并利用代表该地区不同工人群体和广泛农业生产利益的战略合作伙伴网络。该中心的定位是扩大其与行业部门，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，改善农业，林业和渔业工人的安全和健康”这一主题进行组织。该中心汇集了一个经验丰富的领导团队的工作人员，内部和外部顾问在一个组织结构，促进了一个有凝聚力的，协调和协同的运作方案。研究项目包括评估现有数据和差距，以制定AFF健康指标，青少年西班牙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西南部伐木装载机的安全干预措施和传播热应激预防干预战略。合作伙伴将参与使用教育方法来改善OK农民和牧场主的安全实践，增加家禽饲养工人的呼吸器使用，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。该中心的影响力将通过一个可行性方案来扩大，该方案扩大了拟议的工作范围，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.