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Southern Coastal Agromedicine Center
The Southern Coastal Agromedicine Center ( http://www.ncagromedicine.org/
scac.htm ) is at the North Carolina Agromedicine Institute and serves Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Vir-
ginia, and the Virgin Islands. The institute, based at East Carolina University, is a
collaborative institute of that university, North Carolina Agriculture and Technical
State University, and North Carolina State University. The center's high priorities
are ergonomic research, vehicle safety, heat-related disorders and dehydration,
and skin disorders of fishermen. The center looked at selected agricultural injury
surveillance activities among African-American farmers and ranchers and among
agricultural workers with work permits, arthropod allergens in large-scale swine
production, and development of farm safety teams composed of high school stu-
dents. It put in place a timber-medic training program to assist emergency medical
technicians working with injuries in the forests and on Christmas-tree farms. It
also established a network with healthcare providers to address issues associated
with safety and the use of pesticides by migrant workers and greenhouse workers
and with farm vehicle safety. Little evaluative research has been completed on the
outcomes with respect to health and mortality.
Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention
The Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention ( http://
www.mc.uky.edu/scahi/ ) serves Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, and Virginia. The center focused on ROPS, family and child health on
beef-cattle farms, and youth education. It concentrates on underserved populations
of women, children, migrants, and older farmers. Its projects for dissemination
and diffusion include the Agricultural Disability Awareness and Risk Education
(AgDARE), the Kentucky ROPS project, Farm Safety 4 Just Kids, and the Kentucky
Women in Agriculture Conference. The ROPS project was the most comprehensive,
with pre-intervention and post-intervention evaluation. No evaluation of health
or injury outcomes was provided except for the ROPS project, which demon-
strated both cost effectiveness of dissemination and intervention and the value of
community-university partnerships in such efforts.
Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health
The Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health ( http://www.public-health.
uiowa.edu/GPCAH/ ) is at the University of Iowa's Institute for Rural and Environ-
mental Health in Iowa City, Iowa, and serves Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska.