Abstract
The Iowa Farm Family Health and Hazard Surveillance Project was a crosssectionalstudy that assessed the health and safety status of Iowa farm families andothers who lived and worked on those farms. Data were collected using acomprehensive mail-out questionnaire that was sent to 989 representative Iowa farmoperators, their families, and hired help. Three hundred and ninety (39%) farmoperators returned the questionnaire. Here, we present an overview of the methods ofthis survey and some illustrative results. We expected that this rural sample would besimilar to urban dwellers surveyed during a national health interview in terms ofaccessing medical care. Instead, this studys farm participants had much less difficultygetting medical care than U.S. farmers questioned in 1987 (3.4% compared with 7.3%,respectively).We found that the average age of all tractors being used by this cohort ofIowa farmers was almost 24 years. Not even 40% of these tractors had Roll OverProtective Structures (ROPS).
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