Review of Health Effects Research - Agriculture Forestry and Fishing Research at NIOSH - page 87

TABLE 6-1 Research Emphases of Some NIOSH Ag Centers
Ag Center Research Strength or Emphasis

Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety
and Health Center, Washington

Prevention of occupational disease and injury in farmers,
fishermen, forestry operators through occupational
medicine, epidemiology, industrial hygiene

Western Center for Agricultural
Health and Safety, California

Health promotion and disease prevention, injury and
ergonomics, neurotoxicity and pesticides, respiratory
diseases, industrial hygiene and exposure assessment,
evaluation, biostatistics

Southwest Center for Agricultural
Health, Injury Prevention, and
Education, Texas

Farm-family health and injury control, hired farmworker
health and safety, animal-handling injuries, stress, health
and safety training and education

Deep-South Center for Agricultural
Disease and Injury Research,
Education, and Prevention, Florida

Asthma, ergonomic injuries, heat stress in farm workers;
prostatic cancer in licensed pesticide applicators; health,
exposure assessment of poultry producers; incidence of
logging-related injuries; safety of farm children

Southeast Center for Agricultural
Health and Injury Prevention,
Kentucky

Special populations, community-based interventions,
engineering, ergonomics, green tobacco sickness,
environmental health

Northeast Center for Agricultural
and Occupational Health, New York

Hearing loss, arthritis, skin cancer, allergies, mechanical
injuries, migrant farm workers, older farmers, women,
children

Midwest Center for Agricultural
Research, Education, and Disease
and Injury Prevention, Wisconsin

Infectious pathogens, women, developing and evaluating
health promotion and disease and injury prevention
programs, engineering control technologies, injuries in
children

High Plains Intermountain Center
for Agricultural Health and Safety,
Colorado

Engineering, industrial hygiene, education, toxicology,
social work, epidemiology, environmental health,
agricultural sciences

Great Plains Center for Agricultural
Health, Iowa

Environmental health, health and safety of farmers,
occupational health, injury prevention, rural health

National Children's Center for Rural
and Agricultural Health and Safety,
Wisconsin

Health and safety issues for farm children, guidelines for
acceptable agricultural tasks

in response to an explicit directive of Congress, those surveillance efforts could
have shaped the direction of the program for years to come. Instead, data remain
unanalyzed in several of the states, and one state experienced such basic difficulty
in planning, organizing, and directing the effort that little could be salvaged.