Murphy D J, Purschwitz M, Mahoney B S, Hoskin A F
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802.
Am J Public Health. 1993 May;83(5):736-8. doi: 10.2105/ajph.83.5.736.
A fundamental problem with classifying agriculturally related injury is that there is neither a rational nor a comprehensive scheme for grouping incidents into categories describing actual exposures encountered on farms and in agricultural work. Current surveillance systems are unable to differentiate between work that is related to farm production and work that is not, and to include all exposed persons in the surveillance. The proposed Farm and Agricultural Injury Classification Code is a step toward overcoming these problems. When it was applied to previously analyzed fatality data, 40% of cases previously identified as farm production work were reclassified into other categories.
对与农业相关的伤害进行分类的一个根本问题是，既没有合理的也没有全面的方案将事件归类为描述在农场和农业工作中实际接触情况的类别。当前的监测系统无法区分与农场生产相关的工作和非相关工作，也无法将所有接触者纳入监测范围。拟议的《农场和农业伤害分类代码》是朝着克服这些问题迈出的一步。当它应用于先前分析的死亡数据时，先前被确定为农场生产工作的40%的案例被重新归类到其他类别。
