Assistant Professor, Department of Health Promotion, Center for Reducing Health Disparities, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 984340 Nebraska Medical Center , Omaha, Nebraska.
Ethics and Public Health Preparedness, Center for Preparedness Education, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center , Omaha, NE, USA.
J Agromedicine. 2020 Oct;25(4):378-382. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2020.1814925. Epub 2020 Sep 18.
From the farms to the packing plants, essential workers in critical food production industries keep food on our tables while risking their and their families' health and well-being to bring home a paycheck. They work in essential industries but are often invisible. The disparities illuminated by COVID-19 are not new. Instead, they are the result of years of inequities built into practices, policies, and systems that reinforce societal power structures. As a society, we are now at an antagonizing moment where we can change our collective trajectory to focus forward and promote equity and justice for workers in agriculture and food-related industries. To that end, we describe our experience and approach in addressing COVID-19 outbreaks in meat processing facilities, which included three pillars of action based on public health ethics and international human rights: (1) worksite prevention and control, (2) community-based prevention and control, and (3) treatment. Our approach can be translated to promote the health, safety, and well-being of the broader agricultural workforce.
从农场到包装厂，在关键食品生产行业工作的基本工人冒着自己和家人的健康和福祉的风险，只为了带回家一份薪水，从而确保我们的餐桌上有食物。他们在基本行业工作，但往往不为人知。COVID-19 所揭示的差距并不是新的。相反，这些差距是多年来实践、政策和制度中存在的不平等造成的，这些不平等加剧了社会权力结构。作为一个社会，我们现在正处于一个对抗的时刻，我们可以改变我们的集体轨迹，关注未来，为农业和食品相关行业的工人促进公平和正义。为此，我们描述了我们在解决肉类加工设施 COVID-19 爆发方面的经验和方法，其中包括基于公共卫生伦理和国际人权的三个行动支柱：（1）工作场所预防和控制，（2）社区预防和控制，以及（3）治疗。我们的方法可以转化为促进更广泛农业劳动力的健康、安全和福祉。
