Delivering Comprehensive Health Education Programs for Farmers in a Primary Care Setting
Author: Hartye, James
Date Published: 1989
A comprehensive health education series was provided for a group of farmers from a small farming community in western North Carolina. At one year after the program, the participants were surveyed. Between 70 and 100 percent of them felt that they learned something useful from each of the four sessions. The participants also noted behavior changes since the program; from 26.3 percent based on the pulmonary program to 90.9 percent based on the skin protection program. The retention of information and level of impact on health-related behaviors warrants further development and testing of this approach to agricultural occupational health education.
Date Published: 1989
A comprehensive health education series was provided for a group of farmers from a small farming community in western North Carolina. At one year after the program, the participants were surveyed. Between 70 and 100 percent of them felt that they learned something useful from each of the four sessions. The participants also noted behavior changes since the program; from 26.3 percent based on the pulmonary program to 90.9 percent based on the skin protection program. The retention of information and level of impact on health-related behaviors warrants further development and testing of this approach to agricultural occupational health education.
