Interaction of occupational and personal risk factors in workforce health and safety

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• Personal Author:
  Chun H ; Pandalai S ; Schulte, Paul A. ; Wulsin V
• Description:
  Most diseases, injuries, and other health conditions experienced by working people are multifactorial, especially as the workforce ages. Evidence supporting the role of work and personal risk factors in the health of working people is frequently underused in developing interventions. Achieving a longer, healthy working life requires a comprehensive preventive approach. To help develop such an approach, we evaluated the influence of both occupational and personal risk factors on workforce health. We present 32 examples illustrating 4 combinatorial models of occupational hazards and personal risk factors (genetics, age, gender, chronic disease, obesity, smoking, alcohol use, prescription drug use). Models that address occupational and personal risk factors and their interactions can improve our understanding of health hazards and guide research and interventions. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Alcoholic Beverages Biopharmaceutics Chronic Disease Genetics Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Sex Characteristics Smokers Substance-Related Disorders

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors Alcoholic-beverages Chronic-degenerative-diseases Disease-prevention Drug-abuse Drugs Employee-health Genetic-factors Health-hazards Injury-prevention Pharmaceuticals Preventive-medicine Risk-factors Sex-factors Smoking Weight-factors Worker-health

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• ISSN:
  0090-0036
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  434-448
• Volume:
  102
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039875
• Citation:
  Am J Public Health 2012 Mar; 102(3):434-448
• Contact Point Address:
  Paul A. Schulte, PhD, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4676 Columbia Pkwy, MS C-14, Cincinnati, OH 45226
• Email:
  pschulte@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Public Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8b094b53d0ddb1fafd33bc015e1e2a57af99f37681ecd2d43efe57a5b5f94a0e9e243bcc62b4d28c07af1e7aa621dfd2fe9189b5a1f80a12ac0a0b5387021cb0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192938/cdc_192938_DS1.pdf
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