Health expert discusses mental health impacts of pandemic
46% of adults do not feel comfortable going back to living life like they used to before the pandemic
K-State Research & Extension
MANHATTAN – A new report from the American Psychological Association indicates that most U.S. adults are surprised that the COVID-19 pandemic has lasted so long.
The APA’s report on Stress in America found that 82% of American adults are surprised that the pandemic has lasted more than a year. Nearly 7 in 10 (67%) said that living through the pandemic has been a rollercoaster of emotions.
And Elaine Johannes, the Kansas Health Foundation Distinguished Professor of Community Health at Kansas State University, said 46% of adults do not feel comfortable going back to living life like they used to before the pandemic
Stacy Campbell, K-State Extension
K-State Research & Extension will be offering a Hazardous Occupation Safety Training for Agriculture or Tractor and Farm Safety Course for youth on Saturday, April 24, 2021 in two locations, WaKeeney and Norton. At both locations it will be held at the 4-H Building on the fairgrounds, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Local K-State Research & Extension Agents will teach this basic course covering farm and machinery safety, including proper tractor operation and maintenance, grain safety, implement use safety, livestock safety and more. The United States Department of Labor requires youth 14 – 15 years of age attend this safety training in order to work on a farm for someone other than their parents.
‘Opening the lid’ on toilet innovation: Q&A with author Chelsea Wald
A new book, “Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet,” published on April 6, looks at the environmental and public health case for developing better solutions to deal with human waste.
Science writer Chelsea Wald examines the impacts of human sanitation on our climate, ecosystems and each other around the world, from rural communities to cities swelling with human populations.
In this “quest,” Wald finds solvable problems, if society as a whole can come together to find solutions tailored to specific contexts.
Toilets: They’re not any easy subject to discuss. Even though eliminating waste from our bodies is an essential function we all must do, talking about how we deal with that waste as a society, along with the intertwined issues of public health and environmental impacts, doesn’t make for easy conversation.
ESBON From No-Till on The Plains to the Kansas Grazing Lands Coalition, farmers and ranchers in Kansas are practicing and learning about soil health. The newly formed Kansas Soil Health Alliance is a non-profit organization that will serve as a digital library and education repository. We re kind of a database/library, said board member Cade Rensink, a fifth-generation rancher in Minneapolis.
Rensink, who also works for K-State Research & Extension as the director of the Central Kansas District in Saline and Ottawa counties, said board members of the newly formed non-profit will also offer knowledge and mentoring. Soil health is important for a number of reasons, Rensink said. Society, in general, is paying more attention to how food is grown.
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