title: Socioeconomic status and injury in a cohort of Saskatchewan farmers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To estimate the strength of relationships between socioeconomic status and injury in a large Canadian farm population.
  
  
  METHODS
  We conducted a prospective cohort study of 4,769 people from 2,043 farms in Saskatchewan, Canada. Participants reported socioeconomic exposures in 2007 and were followed for the occurrence of injury through 2009 (27 months). The relative hazards of time to first injury according to baseline socioeconomic status were estimated via Cox proportional hazards models.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Risks for injury were not consistent with inverse socioeconomic gradients (adjusted HR 1.07; 95% CI: 0.76 to 1.51 for high vs low economic worry; adjusted HR 1.72; 95% CI: 1.23 to 2.42 for completed university education vs less than high school). Strong increases in the relative hazard for time to first injury were identified for longer work hours on the farm.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Socioeconomic factors have been cited as important risk factors for injury on farms. However, our findings suggest that interventions aimed at the prevention of farm injury are better focused on operational factors that increase risk, rather than economic factors per se.
authors: Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. will.pickett@queensu.ca
authors: William
authors: W
authors: Pickett
authors: Andrew G
authors: AG
authors: Day
authors: Louise
authors: L
authors: Hagel
authors: Xiaoqun
authors: X
authors: Sun
authors: Lesley
authors: L
authors: Day
authors: Barbara
authors: B
authors: Marlenga
authors: Robert J
authors: RJ
authors: Brison
authors: Punam
authors: P
authors: Pahwa
authors: Trever
authors: T
authors: Crowe
authors: Donald C
authors: DC
authors: Voaklander
authors: James
authors: J
authors: Dosman
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000145:classification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000382:Agricultural Workers' Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D000383:Agriculture; D002648:Child; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011203:Poverty; D012307:Risk Factors; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012525:Saskatchewan / Q000453:epidemiology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D055815:Young Adult