Developing the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s Cancer Control Demonstration Projects for Farm Populations

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• Personal Author:
  Alderfer, Raymond J. ; Calvert, Geoffrey M. ; Connally LB ; Davis-King KE ; Goldenhar, Linda M. ; Sanderson, Wayne T. ; Schulte, Paul A. ; Alderfer, Raymond J. ; Calvert, Geoffrey M. ; Connally LB ; Davis-King KE ; Goldenhar, Linda M. ; Sanderson, Wayne T. ; Schulte, Paul A.
• Description:
  Although farmers experience lower overall cancer rates than the U.S. population, they ave at increased risk for cancers of certain sites, such as brain, stomach, lymphatic and hematopoietic, lip, prostate, and skin. Little research has been done to determine the extent to which farmers and their families use cancer control services or how their utilization behaviors and cancer survival rates compare to those of nonfarmers in the United States. In 1989, recognizing the occupational uniqueness of farm populations and the limited cancer-related information about them, Congress mandated that the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) develop a program to promote cancer control among farming populations. Eight institutions were funded through cooperative agreements to collaborate with NIOSH and each other to develop the demonstration research and intervention projects. The projects are aimed at identifying barriers that prevent farmers, farmworkers, and their families from accessing the full range of cancer control services, and then implementing interventions to mitigate those barriers. This paper illustrates some of the conceptual and methodological issues NIOSH researchers and their collaborators faced while developing the cancer control program. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Farmers Neoplasms Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry Agricultural-processes Agricultural-workers Cancer-rates Control-methods Control-systems Control-technology Worker-health
• ISSN:
  0890-765X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article ; Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  EID - Education and Information Division ; DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; EID - Education and Information Division ; DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  258-264
• Volume:
  12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20034128
• Citation:
  J Rural Health 1996 Dec; 12(S4):258-264
• Contact Point Address:
  L. Barbara Connally MS, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Pkwy., Mailstop R42, Cincinnati, OH 45226
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  The Journal of Rural Health
• Supplement:
  S4
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7ec89043a6bffd134e857a555a4d7b442f0a0da443d46b8442de6f5444245d08e360155fbaffb53ec5710e3d351dffe8d94dfdc1c821f11379ba8b836309d846
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/189493/cdc_189493_DS1.pdf
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