In this episode, West Wimmera Health Services own Trish Heinrich shares how she helps farmers at field days with on the spot health’ checks. Trish is a WWHS nurse, who also works for and trained by the National Centre for Farmer Health in Agrisafe’. She talks about what happens when you get a farmer health check and how they can help you. She also talks about her top tips for harvest time health. 

Interested in the topic and looking for more?

National Centre for Farmer Health contact details are: 

Phone: (03) 5551 8533

Contact form: http://farmerhealth.org/contact-us 

Website: https://farmerhealth.org.au/ 

A list of the Centre’s events, including the health assessments at field days can be found here.

Trish spoke about health screenings and how some people are not sure when to get them. The following links might help:

Regular health checks

Health checks for men

Health checks for women

Manage your health in your 40s

Manage your health in your 50s

Manage your health in your 60s

Manage your health in your 70s and older

High blood pressure and high cholesterol were said to be the most common things found during checks. But what are they exactly? Check out these links:

High blood pressure

Cholesterol

Trish gave us some of her tips to be healthy at harvest time, want to find some more? Check out the National Centre for Farmer Health tip sheet here. There are also loads more fact sheets available on their website here. 

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