美国农业工人预防与热有关的疾病的障碍:综合性审查
Ashley Edgerly1, Gordon Lee Gillespie1, Beverly M Hittle1
1College of Nursing University of Cincinnati Cincinnati Ohio USA.
Public health challenges
|June 11, 2025
概括
农业工人面临着预防职业热相关疾病 (HRI) 的重大障碍,包括获得预防资源的限制,培训不足和工作文化问题. 解决这些障碍是减少这个脆弱人群中HRI的关键.
科学领域:
- 职业健康 职业健康 职业健康
- 农业安全 农业安全
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 职业热相关疾病 (HRI) 在美国构成重大风险.
- 与其他职业群体相比,农场工人有不成比例的高HRI率.
- 了解农场工人预防HRI的障碍,对于减少疾病和死亡来说至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 进行综合性审查,以识别和了解美国农业工人在预防职业热相关疾病方面遇到的障碍.
- 综合现有关于农场工人HRI预防挑战的研究.
主要方法:
- 根据惠特莫尔和Knafl的指导方针进行了综合性审查.
- 在PubMed,Medline和Agricola数据库中进行文献搜索.
- 在应用纳入/排除标准和删除重复内容后,选出了9篇相关文章.
主要成果:
- 确定的主要障碍包括对预防资源的有限访问,关于HRI预防的教育和培训不足,具有挑战性的工作文化和薪酬结构.
- 农场工人往往无法获得必要的预防工具和知识.
- 工作文化和薪酬问题,如感觉无法发言或放弃因薪酬而导致的休息,阻碍了预防工作.
结论:
- 需要进一步的研究,以全面了解农场工人对HRI预防的障碍.
- 有效的HRI预防策略必须考虑并解决已识别的障碍.
- 专注于农场工人控制的障碍可能会产生重大影响,特别是考虑到预防措施缺乏监督.
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