New Book Work and Health in Agriculture.
This book was published in 2022 and is free to download at the bookshop. In 160 well-illustrated pages, health and safety problems due to work in agriculture are explained. The book is intended for doctors, nurses, hygienists, community health workers, and interested volunteers in primary, community, and occupational health care. Experts in farmers’ and workers’ organizations and students can learn about the actual topics by reading the book.
Work in agriculture implies many, sometimes severe health hazards. There is an urgent need to provide workers with good-quality health care that deals with occupational health risks. So the authors discuss both specific agriculture-induced diseases and risk factors, including prevention. General skills to handle occupational health problems are discussed as well. The approach follows the concept of Basic Occupational Health Services (BOHS) as recommended by WHO, ILO, ICOH, WONCA (World Organization of Family Doctors), and others. The book focuses on conditions in low and middle-income countries.
Maarten Verberk and Frank van Dijk wrote this book collaborating with a team of LDOH experts. Positive comments on the prefinal version have been given by experts from all over the world and their suggested improvements have been introduced.
Course materials
Corresponding course materials developed by the same authors for interactive education are freely available at the bookshop.
