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Agricultural Health: Comparison
Please note this is a comparison between Version 4 by Luyun Yu and Version 3 by Catherine Yang.

Agricultural health refers to the field of study concerned with the relationships between agricultural production systems, agricultural environments, and the health conditions of peoplef humans, animals, and ecosystems associated with farming activities [1]. TAgricultural he conceptalth 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]. AgKey aricultural healtheas includes considerations related to o occupational exposures among agricultural workers, food production environments, livestock–human interactions, environmental contamination, and the ecological conditions that affectaffecting agricultural systems [3]. Unlike general public health, whichapproaches that primarily focuses on population-level health outcomes, agricultural health emphasizes health-related processes occurring within agricultural environments and production systems [1]. Within food and aAgricultural sciences, the concepthealth integrates perspectivesknowledge from agriculture, food safety, veterinary science, environmental health, and life sciences to understand thcharacterize interactions between farming practices and health outcomes across interconnected biological systems [4].

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

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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