title: Impact of youth injuries on the uninsured farm family's economic viability.
abstract: The objective of this study is to estimate the impact of youth injuries on the uninsured farm family's economic viability. Using farm prototypes, we compared farm profits with costs of farm youth injuries. We built profit models for two types of farms, dairy and soybean farms. Then we estimated the cost impact of farm youth injuries of different levels of severity on a farm family with no health insurance. A severe child injury that requires at least 10 days of hospitalisation would cost almost equal to the operating profit of the average dairy farm with no health insurance and would turn the operating profit of the average soybean farm into a severe loss of $99,499. Prevention of child agricultural injuries would significantly improve the financial situation for farm families that lack health insurance.
authors.affiliation: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Center for Public Health Improvement and Innovation, Calverton, MD 20705-3111, USA. zaloshn@pire.org
authors.forename: Eduard
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Zaloshnja
authors.forename: Ted R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000383:Agriculture / Q000191:economics*; D017281:Cost of Illness; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000191:economics; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D017059:Models, Econometric; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000191:economics*