A case-study of agricultural accidents -from the socio- and medico -economical viewpoint- / 日本農村医学会雑誌

ABSTRACT

Interviews were carried out on 23 cases of agricultural accidents to consider the influence on their life.<BR>Physical damage due to agricultural accidents brought various influences directly hindrance of farming activity, increase of their family members' work load, changes or cut-down of their longterm farming plans, decrease of income through agricultural management or extra-agricultural labour.<BR>And the grade of seriouseness of the damage was related not only to the grade of physical damage but the sufferes' financial status.<BR>Most of the sufferers did not know that the national workmen's compensation insurance had special application for the farmers.<BR>And each of them effected one or several nongovernmental insurances and the amount of insurance money was corresponding to their financial status.<BR>So, it seems that the matter would be more serious, if the accidents occured to the farmers belonging to the financially lower class.<BR>Therefore, some appropriate insurance system is in need to prevest sufferers' economical fall. And most subjects themselves eagerly required such a insurance system.