@article{ref1,
title="Preventive agricultural medicine: a student's perspective of farmers' mental health",
journal="Journal of agromedicine",
year="2002",
author="Tabereaux, Paul B. and Wheat, J. R.",
volume="8",
number="2",
pages="33-43",
abstract="As a medical student completing a required rural community medicine clerkship, I discovered my home community's concern for mental health of farmers. A local economic downturn affects everyone, but especially the farmers. One farmer had recently committed suicide. Leaning heavily on work presented at a Nebraska summit on the farm crisis and mental health and on the National Rural Health Association issue paper on rural mental health, I found farmer and rural mental health to be a widespread concern, exacerbated by a scarcity of rural mental health resources. In my recommendations for rural Alabama, I endorse recommendations of others, including strengthening the local family physician role as &quot;front door&quot; to the mental health system, outreach with such agents as extension personnel and ministers, and farm crisis hotlines.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1059-924X",
doi="10.1300/J096v08n02_07",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J096v08n02_07"
}