Pyramids and Paradigms: Developing Transnational Training

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• Personal Author:
  Kawamoto, Melody M.
• Description:
  In 2000, the CDC/NIOSH consultant at the Pan American Health Organization office in Mexico presented a course on the conduct of workplace evaluations to two different audiences: physicians in their second year of an occupational medicine residency program and newly hired workplace inspectors with varying years of experience in diverse specialties (e.g., chemical engineering, medicine, nursing, social work, economics, and law). Despite an emphasis on practical problem solving and the use of interactive and participatory methods, participants had difficulty with a number of key concepts, such as the public health approach (vis-a-vis focus on the individual patient in the medical model), the concept of causal chains of events (vis-a-vis focus on immediate causes), and multifactoral approaches (vis-a-vis specialty-based). This presentation describes the approaches and solutions developed to overcome learning obstacles encountered during the implementation of the course. A separate presentation, Evaluation and solution of workers' health problems: Critical analysis in practice, describes the course design and content. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Personnel Occupational Health Public Health Safety Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Occupational-health Occupational-medicine-programs Physicians Public-health Training Work-environment Workers Workplace-monitoring Workplace-studies
• Publisher:
  National Safety Council
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20029739
• Citation:
  XVIIth World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, September 18-22, 2005, Itasca, Illinois: Congress Secretariat, National Safety Security Council, 2005 Sep; :1
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  XVIIth World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, September 18-22, 2005, Orlando, Florida
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d566319b14639a7c9b0a1a78519e231e271fa3c51ba918359c5b3c9f94b2711ec8a6d112595d282ca06c4661177d6d4911cb4de5af387f89a1c39d376d10889c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/190660/cdc_190660_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 499.25 KB ]