title: [Education for future agricultural workers: role of schools and other public and private agencies].
abstract: The authors report their health education experience in the high schools of Pavia, emphasizing the responsibility of the public school in promoting a rational behaviour of the youth aimed at health maintenance, and illustrating the role recently played in this regard by a private institution (linked to the University of Pavia and several other Universities): the Salvatori Maugeri Foundation. Since the authors' experience also encompasses the prevention of work-related injuries and diseases, the article presents a didactic plan specifically aimed at the education of future agriculture workers. The program starts from the fundamental principle that considers risk not as something fatally ineluctable but as probabilty of damage, and then dwells on the consequent predictive meaning of a series of notions which allow interventions useful to minimize the various occupational risk factors (or "causes of damage"). The teaching program is composed by educational steps which gradually becomes more complete and specific according to the advancement of learning.
authors.affiliation: Fondazione S. Maugeri, Clinica del Lavoro e della Riabilitazione, IRCCS, Istituto di Pavia.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Candura
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Candura
mesh_terms: D000382:Agricultural Workers' Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004493:Education; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D017149:Private Sector; D017150:Public Sector; D012574:Schools