2015-10-01 – Rural Bank staff to offer blood tests and health assessments after partnering with National Centre for Farmer Health – ABC Rural
Bank managers might soon be offering blood tests, on-farm occupational health and safety assessments and advice about mental health services, due to a partnership between one of Australia’s biggest rural banks and a national health body.
Rural Bank, which says its client base includes about 10 per cent of Australian farmers, has partnered with the National Centre for Farmer Health (NCFH) in a bid to improve health statistics.
As part of the agreement, “frontline” bank staff will be trained in how to recognise and respond to clients suffering from mental or physical illnesses.
NCFH founding director Professor Sue Brumby said it was in recognition of the centre’s core message: profitable farms are entirely dependent on healthy farmers.”
“Good business relies on good health,” she said….
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2015-10-01 – Episode Farmer Health – 20Twenty Vision Christian Radio
2015-10-01 – Episode Farmer Health – 20Twenty Vision Christian Radio
Episode Farmer Health – Dr Susan Brumby, Vanessa Vaughan, Alison Kennedy.
20Twenty with Neil Johnson from Vision Christian Radio – www.vision.org.au
2015-10-01 – Farm Partnership – Hamilton Spectator
Farmer Health E-News – September 2015
Find out what has kept us busy this past month at NCFH!
2015-09-11 – Episode Farmer Health – 5 Day Intensive – 20Twenty Vision Christian Radio
2015-09-11 – Episode Farmer Health – 5 Day Intensive – 20Twenty Vision Christian Radio
Episode Farmer Health – 5 Day Intensive, Dr Vanessa Vaughan (Deakin University).
20Twenty with Neil Johnson from Vision Christian Radio – www.vision.org.au
2015-08-25 ‘It’s an honour, says new WDHS chairman’ – Hamilton Spectator
AgriSafe and CROP Testing Education Day
AgriSafe™ & CROP Testing Education Day
TOPIC:
Organophosphate Poisoning and Cholinesterase Inhibition
Guest Speaker:
John Edwards – Associate Professor & Toxicologist – – Flinders University
Personal Protection Equipment – The Facts
Tam Phillips – AgriSafe™ Clinician – NCFH
WHEN & WHERE:
Wednesday 16th September @ 9am
Lake Bolac Bush Nursing Centre
Hearing Tests available during the day
Morning Tea & light lunch provided
RSVP:
Friday 11th September, 2015
Tam Phillips – 0427 504 557 tam.phillips@wdhs.net
Diana Dixon – 55518533 diana.dixon@wdhs.net
2015-09-03 Five Days to Save Farmers Lives
Five days to save farmers lives
Agricultural Health & Medicine course attracts rural professionals
Now entering its seventh year, Australia’s only postgraduate agricultural health and medicine unit for professionals servicing farming communities continues to attract participants from across Australia. Designed to confront the high morbidity and mortality rates in the agricultural industry, the course better equips health providers, rural professionals and our farming communities with the knowledge and skills they need to help turn things around.
This was the case for 2013 scholarship recipient Lee-Ann Monks, an agricultural scientist and communications consultant from Bli Bli, QLD: “The course gave me an insight into the things that influence farmer health and its impact on the farm business. I now have a better understanding of the people I work with and a broader set of skills to help them.” Felix Ho, a paramedic in Darwin, NT and 2014 scholarship recipient agrees: “You’re not just looking at the medical conditions, but the range of factors that impact on these conditions in an agricultural context – the family, community and economic aspects.”
Scholarships are now open for the Deakin University’s exciting 5-day-intensive Agricultural Health and Medicine unit (HMF701), being offered through the National Centre for Farmer Health (NCFH) in Hamilton, western Victoria, from February 22nd to February 26th 2016. The presented topics cover a broad range of agricultural health, safety and wellbeing issues ranging from mental illness and addiction through to emergency medicine, agrichemicals and agricultural trauma. The course has also been accredited for professional development points in areas of medicine, veterinary science, social work and nursing.
“We know that a healthy workforce is vital for a productive agricultural industry, but through the work of the NCFH, we have learnt that farming families and their communities face poorer health outcomes than their urban counterparts. Agricultural workers have a high rate of injuries including fatalities and suffer chronic diseases at high rates.” Dr Brumby said.
Scholarship applications are open until 25th October 2015, with one of the scholarships reserved for a person engaged in agriculture and/or a member of a farming family. The HMF701 unit can be completed as a stand-alone course, and has been accredited for professional development points through selected colleges and associations, with some health professionals eligible to become AgriSafe™ providers. To date 120 people from all over Australia have undertaken the course.
Contact Dr Vanessa Vaughan, Lecturer Rural Health at NCFH on 03 5551 8533 or visit https://farmerhealth.org.au/page/education/what-is-hmf701 for further information.
Higher social distress and lower psycho-social wellbeing: examining the coping capacity and health of people with hearing impairment
The objectives of this paper are as follows: (1) propose an explanatory model as to how hearing disability may impact on health and (2) examine the model’s utility.
Farmers’ work‐day noise exposure
This study aims to understand the extent of farmers’ exposure to hazardous noise, and trial and test the ability of an on‐farm noise audit report to improve awareness and preventative action towards farm based noise hazards.
Special health needs of Australian farmers
The physical and mental health requirements of the farming workforce present unique challenges to pharmacists practicing in these communities.
Farmers sun exposure, skin protection and public health campaigns: An Australian perspective
This review explores the quantitative data about Australian farmers and their skin protective behaviours. We investigate what the documented measurable effect of the public health campaign Slip!Slop!Slap! has had on agricultural workers and farmers and make recommendations for future focus.