Background: Farm safety day camps are grassroots educational interventions organized and
conducted by members of a local community. These events are held in an effort to promote …

The goal of this paper was to examine interventions focused on childhood agricultural safety
since the last general assessment conducted for the 2001 Summit on Childhood Agricultural …

Background Noise exposure and associated hearing loss affects an estimated 2 million farm
youth who are exposed as farm residents, farm family workers, hired workers, children of …

Several special agriculture risk groups reside in the shadow of the mainstream of
agricultural health and safety research and prevention programming. The public health goal …

This article reports on the use of expert panels by Purdue Universitys AgriculturalSafety and
Health Program staff to address three separate research questions related to:(1) developing …

Rural youth in poverty stricken Appalachian communities are the highest at-risk population
for tractor rollover accidents (Cole, 2007). The Apprenticeship of Observation theory (Lortie …

Background Farm and rural youth have frequent exposure to hazardous noise on the farm
and recreationally, and have an increased prevalence of noise-induced hearing loss. There …

While the Amish population continues to grow because of the faith's high retention rate, the
culture is underserved by many large-scale public health campaigns. Their choice of …

Noise-induced hearing loss is common among farm and rural youth. There is a lack of
programs preparing this high-risk population to use hearing conservation strategies. Safety …

Farm Safety 4 Just Kids uses daylong community-based farm safety day camps as a primary
method to instruct children about the hazards in farm environments. This article describes …