Main description:

Newly updated, Agricultural Medicine: Rural Occupational Health, Safety, and Prevention, Second Edition is a groundbreaking and comprehensive textbook and reference for students and practitioners of public health,  and professionals in the field of rural agricultural occupational health and safety. The book introduces specific occupational and environmental health and safety issues faced by agricultural workers and rural residents, and provides a roadmap to establishing sustainable worker and public health support in agricultural communities.

Responding to reader demand, Agricultural Medicine, Second Edition now features more case studies, key point summaries, and new international perspective chapters comparing North American health and agricultural practices to those in Europe, the Asia Pacific, and South America.

Contents:

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

Preface

1. Introduction and Overview

1.1. Introduction

1.2. What is an Agricultural Health and Safety Professional?

1.3. Training for agricultural health and safety professionals

1.4. Demographics of the agricultural work force

1.5. Types of agricultural production farms and ranches

1.6. Agricultural support/agribusiness workers having health and safety hazards in common with farmers and ranchers

1.7. General Health status of famers, ranchers and farm workers

1.8. Occupational health and safety statistics and status and of famers, ranchers and farm workers

1.9. Overview of occupational health and safety hazards

1.10. Agricultural Health and Safety organizations

1.11. Megatrends in Agriculture implications for current and emerging trends in agricultural health and safety

1.12. Summary

1.13. References

2. Special Risk Populations in Agricultural Communities

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Women

2.3. Youth

2.4. Elderly

2.5. Migrant and seasonal workers

2.6. Anabaptists religious group

2.7. References

3. Agricultural Respiratory Diseases

3.1. Overview

3.2. Hazardous environments and exposures that increase respiratory illness risk

3.3. Agricultural structures and risk

3.4. Agricultural dusts

3.5. Confined feeding operations (CAFO s)

3.6. Oxides of nitrogen (silo gas)

3.7. Applied agricultural chemicals

3.8. Zoonotic infections causing respiratory illness

3.9. General Preventive measures

3.10. References

4. Agricultural Skin Diseases

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Contact dermatitis

4.3. Infectious dermatitis

4.4. Arthropod–induced dermatitis

4.5. Sunlight–induced dermatitis

4.6. Skin disorders related to excess heat or cold

4.7. General prevention

4.8. References

5. Cancer in Agricultural populations

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Cancer rates in agricultural populations

5.3. Protective and risk factors and mechanisms of causation

5.4. Epidemiology and risk factors for specific cancer types

5.5. Cancer is special risk agricultural populations

5.6. Social medicine aspects of cancer in farm populations

5.7. General prevention

5.8. References

6. Health Effects of Agricultural Pesticides

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Definition, history and trends of the types of pesticides used in agriculture

6.3. Statistics on pesticide poisonings

6.4. Toxic mechanisms of various classes of pesticides

6.5. Informed vs. emotional risk assessment of pesticide exposures and health risks

6.6. Diagnosis and treatment of pesticide poisonings

6.7. Herbicides

6.8. Fungicides

6.9. Fumigants

6.10. General prevention of pesticide poisonings

6.11. Summary

6.12. References

7. General Environmental Hazards in Agriculture communities

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Water quality and health

7.3. Air quality and health

7.4. Animal feeding operation

7.5. Community health issues

7.6. Summary

7.7. References

8. Musculoskeletal Disorders

8.1. Introduction

8.2. Definitions

8.3. Work–related disorders

8.4. Epidemiology

8.5. Injuries in the neck

8.6. Injuries in the spine

8.7. Injuries in the shoulder

8.8. Injuries in the hands and arms

8.9. Injuries of the hip

8.10. Injuries of the knee

8.11. Summary

8.12. References

9. Physical factors

9.1. Noise and hearing loss

9.2. Vibration induced injuries

9.3. Injuries from excess heat or cold

9.4. Summary

9.5. Chapter 10: Psychosocial condition in agriculture

9.6. Introduction and overview

9.7. Stress and stress–related health disorders

9.8. Alcohol–related health problems

9.9. Suicide and suicide prevention

9.10. General prevention strategies

9.11. Summary

9.12. References

10. Psychosocial condition in agriculture

10.1. Introduction and overview

10.2. Stress and stress–related health disorders

10.3. Alcohol–related health problems

10.4. Suicide and suicide prevention

10.5. General prevention strategies

10.6. Summary

10.7. References

11. Acute injuries in agriculture

11.1. Introduction

11.2. Agricultural injury statistics

11.3. Medical considerations of acute agricultural injuries

11.4. The chain of referral for best possible outcomes of an injured farmer or worker

11.5. General prevention

11.6. Summary

11.7. References

12. Veterinary Pharmaceuticals: Potential Occupational and Community Health Hazards

12.1. Introduction

12.2. Antibiotics

12.3. Hormones

12.4. Other veterinary pharmaceuticals

12.5. Needle sticks

12.6. Control and prevention

12.7. Summary

12.8. References

13. Zoonotic diseases: Occupational Hazards in Agricultural An Overview

13.1. Introduction

13.2. Classification of zoonotic diseases

13.3. Table of specific agricultural zoonoses

13.4. Summary

13.5. References

14. Prevention of illnesses and injuries in agriculture

14.1. Introduction

14.2. Barriers to prevention intervention

14.3. A hierarchy of prevention modalities

14.4. Regulation and enforcement

14.5. Application of personal protective equipment

14.6. Specialized health and safety disciplines

14.7. Multi–modal interventions

14.8. Summary

14.9. References

15. International Agricultural Safety and Health

15.1.1. The South American Mercosur 4 countries

Marcos Grigioni

15.1.2. Australia and New Zealand
Susan Brumby

15.1.3. European Community
Christina L. Kolstrup and Peter Lundquist

Index