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Delivering Comprehensive Health Education Programs for Farmers in a Primary Care Setting *
Author(s) -
Hartye James K.,
Mathis Norma
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
the journal of rural health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.439
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1748-0361
pISSN - 0890-765X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-0361.1989.tb00981.x
Subject(s) - health education , agriculture , health care , community health , program evaluation , medicine , nursing , environmental health , gerontology , family medicine , public health , political science , geography , archaeology , public administration , law
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.