Theoretical framework used to develop etiological models within the Saskatchewan Farm Injury Cohort (SFIC), adapted from population health theorya,b
aFederal, Provincial, and Territorial Advisory Committee on Population Health. Strategies for population health: investing in the health of Canadians. Ottawa (ON): Health Canada, Minister of Supply and Services Canada; 1994.
bTime that participants are exposed to farm work and farm worksites are the individual farm exposures under study. Farm injuries are the primary outcomes. Characteristics of the settings (context) in which farm people work and/or live may have a moderating influence on exposure-outcome relationships. In the SFIC, we hypothesize that when farm people are in positive contextual settings, associations between exposures and injury will be attenuated, after controlling for key confounders.