Educational Objectives

Following participation in this activity, MRASH 08 participants should be able to:

• Identify one example of how the farm bill impacts the health of rural areas.

• List one way public policy impacts sustainable agriculture.
  
  
• Compare agricultural work force of past decades to the present.
  
  
• Explain how the health care system must change to address health care needs in rural areas.
  
  
• Discuss development and promotion strategies for farm safety and health educational material dissemination.
  
  
• Describe the use of the Certified Safe Farm intervention in a community-based farm health and safety program.
  
  
• Explain the benefits of working with FS4JK Outreach Coordinators to enhance rural safety education programs.
  
  
• Explain the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network.
  
  
• Describe the system of enforcement of motor vehicle laws.
  
  
• Describe the most typical lighting and marking expected in the current fleet of agricultural equipment.
  
  
• Identify crash severity and crash factors on low volume roads.
  
  
• Describe the current play environment for young children on farms in a population-based study in rural Iowa.
  
  
• Compare high and low risk takers’ outcomes after ATV safety training.
  
  
• Discuss AgriSafe methods to educate rural health care providers about guidelines for youth working on farms.
  
  
• Describe how the Certified Safe Farm program is being adapted to meet the needs of alternative farmers.
  
  
• Describe the increasing population of part-time farmers and ways FS4JK plans to address this population.
  
  
• List high risk conditions for workers or visitors to lambing facilities.
  
  
• Identify important variables that will impact the development of new rural roadway safety education.
  
  
• Discuss the Nebraska Safety Center ATV safety training program.
  
  
• State the injury and fatality toll from farm equipment crashes on roadways in the GPCAH region.
  
  
• Describe how to assess a farmer’s stage of behavior change in relation to use of personal protective equipment.
  
  
• Identify tasks that cause significantly elevated concentrations of dust in swine farrowing buildings.
  
  
• Compare use of PPE among cases and controls in the Certified Safe Farm intervention program.
  
  
• Identify two worker-associated disease outbreaks from the past year.
  
  
• Identify the high-risk activities associated with injury from farm animals.
  
  
• State the toll of farm and agricultural injuries reported in press clippings for the nine-state GPCAH region.
  
  
• Name the most common form of skin cancer in the agricultural population.
  
  
• Name three examples of successful research to practice interventions in the occupational health field.
  
  
• Discuss the objectives and outcomes of the NIOSH Tractor Safety Initiative.
  
  
• Relate findings from Machinery Dealers’ Survey on ROPS.
  
  
• Describe components of the New York State social marketing campaign for installation of ROPS on tractors.

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