Since 2003, Iowa’s Center for Agricultural Safety and Health and the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health have maintained this free listerv called Farm Families Alive & Well Updates. Originally developed for the AgriSafe Network nurses as a continuing education service, and administered by the ICASH/GPCAH Information Specialist, it has become an efficient way for a variety of healthcare professionals to receive monthly abstracts from research publications on rural and agricultural health and safety issues.
Subscribe to this free monthly listserv: http://list.uiowa.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=alive-well-updates&A=1 Upon request, listserv members will be emailed full-text versions of the articles.
Recent Alive & Well Updates postings:
February 2012
Participatory research and service-learning among farmers, health professional students, and experts: an agromedicine approach to farm safety and health. 2012 Jan. Guin, Susan M; Wheat, John R; Allinder, Russell S; Fanucchi, Gary J; Wiggins, Oscar S; Johnson, Gwendolyn J. J Agromed 17(1): 22-9.
January 2012
Agricultural injury among rural California public high school students. Jan 2012. McCurdy, Stephen A.; Xiao, Hong; Kwan, Jonathan A. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 55(1):63-75.
Injuries to Hired Crop Workers in the United States-A Descriptive Analysis of a National Probability Survey. Oct 2011. Wang, Shuhui; Myers, John R.; Layne, Larry A. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 54(10): 734-747.
December 2011
Determinants of work hours among a cohort of male and female farmers 50 years and older in Kentucky and South Carolina (2002-2005). Marcum, Jennifer L. ; Browning, Steven R.; Reed, Deborah B.; Charnigo, Richard J. Journal of Agromedicine, 2011 Jul-Sep; 16(3): 163-73.
Farm animal-assisted intervention: relationship between work and contact with farm animals and change in depression, anxiety, and self-efficacy among persons with clinical depression. Pedersen I, Nordaunet T, Martinsen EW, Berget B, Braastad BO. Issues in mental health nursing 2011 32(8):493 -500.
November 2011
Does Daily Exposure to Whole-Body Vibration and Mechanical Shock Relate to the Prevalence of Low Back and Neck Pain in a Rural Workforce? Milosavljevic S, Bagheri N, Vasiljev RM, McBride DI, Rehn B. Ann Occup Hyg. 2011 Sep 29. [Epub ahead of print]
Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Farmers: A Systematic Review. Osborne A, Blake C, Fullen BM, Meredith D, Phelan J, McNamara J, Cunningham C. Am J Ind Med. 2011 Nov 8. [Epub ahead of print]
Rural Workers' Experience of Low Back Pain: Exploring Why They Continue to Work. Dean, Sarah G; Hudson, Sheena; Hay-smith, E Jean; C; Milosavljevic, Stephan. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation 21( 3) (Sep 2011): 395-409.
October 2011
Avoiding Harm on the Farm: Human Factors. McLaughlin, Anne Collins; Mayhorn, Christopher B. Win 2011. Gerontechnology 10(1): 26-37.
September 2011
Health, health insurance, and decision to exit from farming. Chang, Kuo-Liang; Langelett, George L.; Waugh, Andrew W. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 32(2), Jun 2011, 356-72.
Crime and security on agricultural operations. Barclay, Elaine; Donnermeyer, Joseph F. Security Journal, 24(1), Feb 2011, 1-18.
Pilot Evaluation of an Internet Educational Module for Agricultural Safety. Schwab, Charles V.; Freeman , Steven A. Journal of Extension, 49(3), June 2011, Article Number 3RIB4.
August 2011
Underserved farmers with disabilities: designing an AgrAbility program to address health disparities. Hunter EG, Hancock J, Weber C, Simon M. J Agromedicine. 2011 Apr;16(2):99-105.
Secondary injury potential of assistive technologies used by farmers with disabilities: findings from case studies. Mathew SN, Field WE, French BF. J Agromedicine. 2011 Jul-Sep;16(3):210-25.