Farm injuries. How can the family farm be made a safer place?
Farming is a dangerous life-style and occupation for children and adults. Dangerous situations are taken in stride and considered part of life on a family farm. Regulatory and educational programs and funding have been minimal in the United States. Physicians have been a major force in accident-prevention efforts in other segments of society and can be instrumental in preventing farm injuries as well by extending these educational efforts to rural communities.
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Department of Emergency Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55415.
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