Advent of Occupational Health Services Research

Details

• Personal Author:
  Deitchman, Scott D. ; Dembe AE ; Himmelstein J
• Description:
  After lagging behind health services research in general health care, research is now examining health services provided to workers suffering occupational injuries and illnesses. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Workers' Compensation Health Initiative, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (now the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality), and the Canadian Institute for Work and Health co-sponsored a June, 1999, conference to explore research needs in this area. Fundamental tenets for advancing occupational health services research include: adopting the goal of improving occupational health care, including better integration of preventive and curative care; creating standardized interstate occupational health care data sets that include medical, economic, and patient perspectives; better defining quality in occupational care and developing appropriate performance measures; in addition to medical costs, assessing social, economic, medical and functional outcomes of care; considering the connections between work and health, including general health services; and addressing the need to train qualified occupational health services researchers. Description provided by NIOSH
• Subjects:
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
  • Staff Development
• Keywords:
  • Occupational-health
  • Occupational-health-programs
  • Occupational-health-services
  • Health-services
  • Health-care
  • Injuries
  • Workers
  • Worker-health
  • Medical-care
  • Author Keywords: occupational health services
  More +
• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  291-294
• Volume:
  40
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20021713
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2001 Sep; 40(3):291-294
• Contact Point Address:
  Scott Deitchman, 1600 Clifton Road NE D32, Atlanta, GA 30333
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/198828/cdc_198828_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 64.50 KB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:57d3017d3c18842b32ed7c62f7a0851114a9f2dfddcfec3c62da31e6023d5489aa21495309155b5716b1d6a21e5f103ff330c1d0f4b9f23ba6089c12d178c28b