Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
• Intervention effectiveness research conducted according to scientific
standards.
• Ensuring that detailed results are disseminated quickly and effectively so
that all stakeholders are aware of both successful and unsuccessful intervention
strategies.
• High visibility at all levels in each of the industries and active engagement
in community-based participatory programs to deploy effective interventions and
disseminate information.
• Evaluation mechanisms to measure the effectiveness of different strategies
for implementing controls and transferring information.
• A group devoted to evaluating policy development and potential effects
on implementation of control strategies for reducing injury and illness in AFF
industries.
• Extensive involvement in research to characterize and identify the best
strategies for implementing new control approaches.
• Development and use of objective measures for assessing the cost-effective
distribution and acceptance of control strategies.
• Coordination and sharing of activities and results across all intramural and
extramural research groups and external partners to avoid duplication of efforts
and to ensure dissemination of effective strategies.
• Established effective national networks for rapid dissemination of relevant
intervention strategies to users.
• Readily available results of all intervention research to anyone interested
and in a standardized format that allows for quick determination of the relevance
and likely effectiveness of a given strategy for another application.
Health Services Research and Training
The ideal AFF Program would fully describe access to occupational health
services for each AFF industry in all regions and for all subpopulations. All im-
portant barriers to obtaining such services would be identified and characterized.
The program would then use strategies that allow effective delivery of occupational
healthcare services to all populations at risk in each industry. When feasible, health
promotion and preventive health services would also be offered. The workplace is
the primary location at which those services are delivered to many workers, and
this justifies the allocation of occupational health resources to meet general well-
ness needs.
A special effort will be required to integrate health services research into the
NIOSH agenda. Health services research is central to the NIOSH agenda and would
be conducted in both intramural and extramural settings. A substantial propor-
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