Introduction to a special issue: eliminating health and safety inequities at work

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• Personal Author:
  Baron, Sherry L. ; Beard SD ; Hughes JT Jr. ; Steege, Andrea L.
• Description:
  In 2011, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health along with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and in partnership with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency convened a national conference on Eliminating Health and Safety Disparities at Work www.aoecdata.org/conferences/healthdisparities/. In this issue Steege et al. [2014] present new analyses of the Bureau of Labor Statistics data on occupational injuries and illnesses and work-related fatalities, which indicate that workers who are African American, Hispanic, immigrant, who earn low wages and who have lower levels of educational attainment are at greater risk of working in occupations where occupational injuries and illnesses occur at more than twice the national rate. These data clearly demonstrate the need for more targeted and comprehensive occupational safety and health prevention programs aimed at reducing these disparities. The goal of the 2011 conference was to bring together representatives from multiple disciplines and perspectives to review the major research accomplishments and gaps in understanding the social, cultural, and economic factors that create and perpetuate occupational health and safety disparities. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Demography Education Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Demographic-characteristics Disease-prevention Diseases Humans Injuries Occupational-health-programs Occupational-safety-programs Racial-factors Sociological-factors Statistical-analysis Surveillance-programs Traumatic-injuries Worker-health Workers

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; North Carolina ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 4 ; 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:
  493-494
• Volume:
  57
• Issue:
  5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20044016
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2014 May; 57(5):493-494
• Contact Point Address:
  Sherry Baron, MD, MPH, CBNS, Queens College Remsen 311, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY 11367
• Email:
  sbaron@qc.cuny.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/199872/cdc_199872_DS1.pdf
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