Agricultural Medicine: Occupational and Environmental Health for the Health Professions
Worldwide, agricultural employment is plagued with one of the highest levels of mortality among occupational groups. Occupational deaths among farmers in the 15-member European Community is more than twice that for all other occupations. In the United States, agricultural death rates are nearly five times the rate for all occupations. The deaths cost the U.S. economy more than 40 billion dollars annually. Every day, an average of 9,000 U.S. workers sustain disabling injuries on the job. Occupational and environmental health and safety of farmers, farm workers, and farm residents is a growing priority for epidemiologists, occupational health and safety professionals rural health providers, public health practitioners, and extension agents and educators. Agriculture is an essential industry that is too often taken for granted in industrialized countries, especially when it comes to its human resources.Agricultural Medicine: Occupational and Environmental Health for the Health Professionsprovides in-depth information on occupational and environmental illnesses, injuries, and prevention associated with productive agriculture. Written to reach a broad range of health and safety professionals, the authors motivate readers to apply this information to serve the health and safety needs of the agricultural population. Satisfying a growing need for a textbook on this significant aspect of public health,Agricultural Medicineis the first comprehensive textbook and reference for students of public health and health professionals in the field of rural medicine.The first comprehensive text and reference for students and agricultural medicine professionals, as well as for farmers and agricultural practitioners.Written by a multidisciplinary team of professionals from the agricultural medicine fields.Includes chapters on special high risk populations, environmental hazards, and prevention.Agricultural health and safety engages a multidisci0plianry team of medical professionals, veterinarians, engineers, sociologists, epidemiologists, and psychologists for whom this book is an overdue, essential reference.