Analysis of Occupational Health Challenges among Farmers

Background & Aims of the Study: Farmers and agricultural workers are vulnerable becauseof exposed to a wide range of occupational hazards and Facing with problems and obstaclesin their work, so the main purpose of this study was analysis of occupational healthchallenges among farmersMaterials & Methods: The tool of the research was a questionnaire that designed toanalysis of occupational health challenges among farmers. Validity of questionnaire wasconfirmed by experts and reliability by Cronbach s alpha (alpha=0.85). Also for dataanalysis used SPSS.Results: Research findings indicated that factor analysis extracted five factors a boutoccupational health challenges among farmers. Including; educational factors, economicalfactors, individual factors, a kind of equipment design and social factors. These five factorsdetermined about 67.69 percent of total variance.Conclusions: Farmers and agricultural workers are exposed injuries that lead to death anddisability more than of the workers in other industries. So education and awareness is willbe useful to empowerment them for protective in these hazards.

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ChallengeOccupational HealthFarmersFactor Analysis