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2014-08-28 Christel Smit-Kroner discusses farmers and sun exposure -...
Christel Smit-Kroner who is currently enrolled in the Graduate Certificate of Agricultural Health and Medicine, and completed core units HMF701 & HMF702 in...
September 2, 2014
2014-08-20 Promote farm safety culture - Stock and Land
A LECTURER from the National Centre for Farmer Health at Hamilton has told a farm safety conference that safety issues extend beyond the property gate. Dr...
August 21, 2014
2014-08-18 Canada adopts Australian farmer health program in global...
A farmer health program developed by the National Centre for Farmer Health (NCFH) in regional Victoria is being rolled out to farmers in Canada. The...
August 19, 2014
Suicide and accidental death in Australia's rural farming...
Australia’s farmers constitute a heterogeneous group within the rural population. This literature review incorporates four broad areas: an understanding...
August 18, 2014
Making Connections: The 2014 Libby Harricks Memorial Oration...
This is a story of engagement. Engagement with people who live in areas where access to services is difficult; people who live on farms and who have noise...
August 18, 2014
Q-fever and Australian farmers: is the health system paying enough...
Q-fever is caused by Coxiella burnetii, a Gram-negative bacteriumand Rickettsia-like organism. Transmitted from wild and domestic animals to humans, the most...
August 18, 2014
2014-08-15 Exploring the ripple effect of rural suicide - ABC Bush...
It’s often said that country people are a resilient lot. Alison Kennedy has attempted to test this theory in an area that many people find difficult to...
August 18, 2014
2014-08-13 Life after suicide in farming communities, shaping...
It’s now widely known that suicide and accidental deaths are far more common in farming communities than in the general population. There is much...
August 13, 2014
2014-08-07 Mechanised modern farming puts Australian primary...
Australian farmers are at greater risk of high blood pressure and have higher rates of obesity than the general population. That’s according to Deakin...
August 7, 2014
Tinea
Tinea is a highly-contagious fungal skin infection that affects the feet (athletes foot), groin (jock itch), scalp, skin underneath the breasts, fingernails...
August 1, 2014
Farmers footwear
As farmers you spend a majority of your life on your feet so it’s important that we do what we can to look after them. The best way that you can take care of...
August 1, 2014