The Iowa Farm Family Health and Hazard Surveillance Project

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• Personal Author:
  Burmeister L ; Jones M ; Lewis M ; Popendorf W ; Reynolds S ; Scarth R ; Swerling C ; Whitten P
• Description:
  The Iowa Farm Family Health and Hazard Surveillance Project was a cross-sectional study that assessed the health and safety status of Iowa farm families and others who lived and worked on those farms. Data were collected using a comprehensive mail-out questionnaire that was sent to 989 representative Iowa farm operators, their families, and hired help. Three hundred and ninety (39%) farm operators returned the questionnaire. Here, we present an overview of the methods of this survey and some illustrative results. We expected that this rural sample would be similar to urban dwellers surveyed during a national health interview in terms of accessing medical care. Instead, this study's farm participants had much less difficulty getting medical care than U.S. farmers questioned in 1987 (3.4% compared with 7.3%, respectively). We found that the average age of all tractors being used by this cohort of Iowa farmers was almost 24 years. Not even 40% of these tractors had Roll Over Protective Structures (ROPS). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Epidemiology Farmers Morbidity Mortality Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Agricultural Workers Author Keywords: Farmers Injury-prevention Morbidity-rates Mortality-data Mortality-rates Occupational-health Safety-measures Statistical-analysis Tractor Injuries Training

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• ISSN:
  1074-7583
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Iowa ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  13-20
• Volume:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025120
• Citation:
  J Agric Saf Health 1998 May; 4(Special Issue 1):13-20
• Contact Point Address:
  Craig Zwerling, University of Iowa, Institute for Rural and Environmental Health, 100 Oakdale Campus, 124 IREH, Iowa City, IA 52242
• Email:
  craig-zwerling@uiowa.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Performing Organization:
  University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19900928
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health
• End Date:
  19980927
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:75b0b79f123c0cbc670e155d3a6adfc5532316a2d3ac1dc828ebf814ee19ecefbc6c7ba40781735de4b5d6c14ce13d08981c43e9d1535c55d2e829787c5b0e14
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/196611/cdc_196611_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 75.90 KB ]