State-based occupational injury and disease surveillance.

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• Personal Author:
  Flattery J ; Harrison R
• Description:
  State-based data sources that are not available on the national level can be used to identify specific cases and/or worksites for targeted investigations, thereby coordinating efforts at the individual and worksite level to reduce the burden of workplace injuries, diseases, and deaths. With the adoption of electronic data systems for hospital discharge, emergency room, ambulatory surgery, and workers' compensation claims, there is the opportunity to improve the ability of state and federal agencies to perform coordinated and timely surveillance that can more closely approximate the true nature and extent of workplace morbidity and mortality. While the BLS SOII is the most comprehensive nationwide sample of workplace injury and illness, it does not collect sufficient detailed data for many occupational illnesses and diseases that can be used to target worksites for interventions. Likewise, the BLS SOII system is not appropriate for ongoing and timely ascertainment of "sentinel" cases that link health outcomes to specific exposures that can lead to targeted worksite investigations and broad public health recommendations. State-based occupational health surveillance programs that can utilize the BLS SOII data in conjunction with workers' compensation and other public health data sets should be considered a key part of a comprehensive system to track occupational injuries and illnesses in the United States. Beginning in 2009, the BLS has awarded funding to California, Washington, and Massachusetts to conduct a 3-year pilot study to enumerate selected workplace injuries and illnesses (amputations and carpal tunnel syndrome) with multiple data sources. These states will test the hypotheses that multi-source surveillance is needed to better elucidate the burden of work-related morbidity and mortality, and that utilization of existing electronic and other administrative data sets is a cost-effective mechanism to supplement the BLS SOII system. The long-term objective of these studies is to determine whether utilizing state-based workers' compensation and public health data systems for occupational safety and health surveillance is an effective strategy to improve our understanding of the causes and prevention of workplace injury and disease.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Ecology Environmental Health Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Epidemiology Fatalities Injuries Morbidity Rates Mortality Data Occupational Accidents Occupational Exposure Public Health Surveillance Programs
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Conference/Symposia Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  73-82
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20059846
• Citation:
  Use of workers' compensation data for occupational injury & illness prevention (revised 08/2010). Utterback DF, Schnorr TM, eds. Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2010-152, 2010 Aug; :73-82
• Editor(s):
  Utterback DF ; Schnorr TM
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• Performing Organization:
  Public Health Institute
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181871/cdc_181871_DS1.pdf
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