College of Community Health Sciences, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA.
J Agromedicine. 2021 Apr;26(2):140-150. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2020.1724842. Epub 2020 Feb 13.
: Limited resource African-American farmers exist at the nexus of several correlates of disparities (e.g., minority, poor, rural, and agricultural) and beyond the reach of most health promotion programs. Minimal research addresses their occupational safety and health. We proposed to explore such concerns with them.: We conducted phenomenological interviews with nine farmers about work practices, farm operations, safety practices, health, and sources of information and assistance. We audio-recorded, transcribed, and analyzed interviews to code topics and identify themes.: The farmers varied in background, land ownership, farm products, and degree of resource limitation. We identified six themes: limited capital and sources of information, old unsafe machinery and equipment, a pragmatic resilient attitude, distrust of public institutions and agencies, lack of safety training useful on their farms, and personal health conditions.: These themes raise hypotheses about limited resource African-American farmers' experience with agricultural safety and health compounded by various economic, environmental, behavioral, social, and institutional determinants. We recommend that these hypotheses be pursued with effective community engagement and partnership to collect and interpret needed data from samples representative of the population of these farmers, including comparison with other limited resource farmer populations.
资源有限的非裔美国农民处于多种差异因素（如少数民族、贫困、农村和农业）的交叉点，大多数健康促进计划都无法覆盖到他们。很少有研究关注他们的职业安全与健康。我们拟与他们一起探讨这些问题。
我们对 9 名农民进行了现象学访谈，内容涉及工作实践、农场经营、安全措施、健康状况以及信息和援助来源。我们对访谈进行了录音、转录和分析，以对主题进行编码并确定主题。
这些农民在背景、土地所有权、农场产品和资源限制程度方面存在差异。我们确定了六个主题：资金和信息来源有限、老旧的不安全机械和设备、实用的坚韧态度、对公共机构和机构的不信任、缺乏在其农场有用的安全培训以及个人健康状况。
这些主题提出了假设，即各种经济、环境、行为、社会和制度决定因素使资源有限的非裔美国农民在农业安全和健康方面的经验受到限制。我们建议通过有效的社区参与和伙伴关系来进一步研究这些假设，从具有代表性的农民样本中收集和解释所需数据，包括与其他资源有限的农民群体进行比较。
