NIOSH Healthcare and Social Assistance Program: Evidence Package 2006-2016

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Healthcare and Social Assistance (HCSA) is one of the largest and fastest growing industry sectors in the U.S. Employing a large and diverse workforce, the sector poses unique challenges in protecting the health and safety of workers in a context where patient and client safety and quality of care are also of paramount importance. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has been addressing occupational safety and health challenges through the generation of new knowledge and the translation of that knowledge in to practice since its establishment in 1970. Based upon available burden and need information at the start of the second decade of the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) (2006-2016), the NIOSH HCSA Program chose to focus on four primary areas of research: 1) promoting safe and health workplaces; 2) prevention of musculoskeletal disorders; 3) hazardous drugs and other chemicals; and 4) prevention of occupational infectious disease transmission, which includes sharps injury prevention. The Program also made the decision to direct most of its efforts toward the healthcare industry sector. However, many of the issues that were addressed in healthcare (e.g., overexertion, violence) are also relevant to social assistance. NIOSH activities described within this document reflect both intramural (work within NIOSH) and extramural (work funded by NIOSH through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements) efforts. The intramural component of the Program has received an annual average of approximately $9.3M and the extramural component has received approximately $6.8M in funding annually. This evidence package presents, for each of the four primary areas, inputs, research and translation activities, research findings and products, translators who assist NIOSH in transferring its research into practice, and evidence of utilization of research findings.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Atmosphere Chemistry Chromatography Environmental Monitoring Halogens Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Healthcare And Social Assistance Sector Research Program Health Care Workers National Occupational Research Agenda NORA Review Process Worker Health
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Other
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-211
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20057136
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, contract 200-2016-F-89983, 2017 Apr; :1-211
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181795/cdc_181795_DS1.pdf
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