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Agricultural Health: Comparison
Please note this is a comparison between Version 1 by Luyun Yu and Version 4 by Luyun Yu.

Agricultural health refers to the field of study concerned with the relationships between agricultural production systems, agricultural environments, and the health conditiof humansns of people, animals, and ecosystems associated with farming activities [1][1]. Agricultural healthThe concept encompasses the assessment and management of biological, chemical, physical, and environmental factors arising from agricultural practices that may influence human, animal, and ecosystem health [2]. KeyAgricultural areashealth include os considerations related to occupational exposures among agricultural workers, food production environments, livestock–human interactions, environmental contamination, and ethe ecological conditions affectingthat affect agricultural systems [3]. Unlike general public health, approaches thatwhich primarily focuses on population-level health outcomes, agricultural health emphasizes health-related processes occurring within agricultural environments and production systems [1]. Within food Aand agricultural healthsciences, the concept integrates knowledgeperspectives from agriculture, food safety, veterinary science, environmental health, and life sciences to characterizeunderstand the interactions between farming practices and health outcomes across interconnected biological systems [4].

  • agricultural health
  • food safety
  • occupational health
  • agricultural ecosystems

 Food and Agricultural Sciences •  Food Science •  Agricultural and Biological Sciences •  Life Sciences

References

  1. Donham, K. J., & Thelin, A. 2006. Agricultural Medicine: Rural Occupational and Environmental Health, Safety, and Prevention. Wiley. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118647356
  2. Amy K. Liebman; Wilson Augustave; Agricultural Health and Safety: Incorporating the Worker Perspective. J. Agromedicine 2010, 15, 192-199. [CrossRef]
  3. Schenker, M. B., Kirkhorn, S. R., Cark, C. J., & Hoxie, R. 1998. Agriculture and cancer. Occupational Medicine, 13(2), 239–252.
  4. Delia Grace. Review of evidence on antimicrobial resistance and animal agriculture in developing countries; CABI Publishing: Oxon, United Kingdom, 2015. [CrossRef]
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