State Activities for Surveillance of Occupational Disease and Injury, 1985

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• Alternative Title:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): CDC Surveillance Summaries, November 1, 1987/Vol.36/No. 2S: State Activities for Surveillance of Occupational Disease and Injury, 1985
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Surveillance Summaries
• Personal Author:
  Muldoon, Joann T. ; Wintermeyer, Laverne A. ; Eure, John A. ; Fuortes, Laurence ; Merchant, James A. ; Van Lier, Stephanie F. ; Richards, Thomas B.
• Description:
  Accurate surveillance of occupational disease and injury is essential to effective prevention programs. In the past. no systematic approach has been available to public health officials for identifying, reporting, or following up on adverse health conditions related to specific occupations, and surveillance efforts have been inadequate to meet the health information needs of prevention programs. Recognizing that state health departments play an important role in the surveillance of occupational disease, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in 1981, began a series of cooperative agreements with state health departments to help them develop occupational surveillance programs and build surveillance capacity within their departments. To date, NIOSH has awarded approximately $2.7 million to support 22 state projects. Under one of these agreements, in 1985 the Iowa Department of Public Health conducted a mail-based survey of state epidemiologists to determine the activities of state health departments in the surveillance of occupational disease and injury. This report summarizes conditions existing at the time of the survey but does not reflect changes in activity since that time. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Health Personnel Health Promotion Occupational Diseases Occupational Health Public Health Quality Control Safety Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Surveillance; Surveillance programs; Occupational diseases; Occupational health; Injuries; Statistical analysis; Diseases; Recording systems; Recordkeeping; Records management; Data processing; Quality standards; Public health; Health programs; Health surveys; Epidemiology; Death certificates; Medical records; Information systems; Cancer registries; Workers Compensation; Health care; Health care personnel
• Source:
  MMWR Surveill Summ 1987 Nov; 36(SS-2):7SS-12SS
• Series:
  Surveillance Summaries: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  1546-0738
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Iowa ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 7 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  8 pdf pages
• Volume:
  36
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20051494
• Citation:
  MMWR Surveill Summ 1987 Nov; 36(SS-2):7SS-12SS
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1988
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5b357c68522187e04da6b66457e845ec110757e46fec39d59ce59a45afdb45f4520079e98248f988f90f2f40a157c5a06788d554678bf193fcce0e81c8d425d4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/182976/cdc_182976_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 632.92 KB ]