Educational Interventions to Improve Safety and Health Literacy Among Agricultural Workers: A Systematic Review

Madalina Adina Coman, Andreea Marcu, Razvan Mircea Chereches, Jarkko Leppälä and Stephan Van Den Broucke
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Madalina Adina Coman: Department of Public Health, College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, 400376 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Andreea Marcu: Department of Public Health, College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, 400376 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Razvan Mircea Chereches: Department of Public Health, College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, 400376 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Jarkko Leppälä: Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Production Systems, 00790 Otaniemi, Finland
Stephan Van Den Broucke: Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, 1348 Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 3, 1-15

Abstract: Health and safety education for farmers has the potential to increase the level of health, safety literacy, and thereby improve farmers’ health and quality of life. The aim of this paper is to provide a systematic review of the published literature documenting different educational interventions for agricultural workers that have the improvement of health and/or safety literacy as an outcome. A systematic search was conducted in PubMed, Embase, Scopus and PsycINFO databases for articles focusing on educational interventions for farmers’ health and safety. From the 3357 initial hits, 36 unduplicated records met the inclusion criteria. The articles included in the review used educational interventions for farmers with the purpose of preventing farm-induced diseases and injuries, increasing the health and well-being of farmers, and promoting good manufacturing practices. The educational approaches considered varied from lectures, videos, newsletters, games, and community fairs, to involving the community in designing the intervention and training farmers to deliver the intervention to the community. Interventions that used evidence-based theories, which took into account cultural aspects and individual factors, used biomarkers as a behavior change measurement, and involved the community in the development of the intervention had the best results in terms of behavior change. The strategies of educational interventions identified in this review that produced good results have the potential to inform future researchers and policy makers in the design and implementation of public health interventions, programs and policies to improve the health of farmers and their families.

Keywords: farm safety; agriculture; health literacy; education; safety; review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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