Some trends in worker access to health care in the United States (1974-1983)

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• Personal Author:
  Pedersen, David H. ; Sieber WK Jr.
• Description:
  Trends in worker access to health care in the United States during the years 1974 through 1983 were examined using two national occupational health surveys (the National Occupational Hazard Survey and the National Occupational Exposure Survey) intended to describe health and safety conditions in the American workplace. Data was extracted from the medical services section of the questionnaires which contained questions on topics ranging from provision of specific areas within the facility reserved for medical care to the provision of medical tests and examinations. Principal findings over time were: increased general health care provided to workers; increased use of off site physicians; and increased use of screening examinations or tests. Other analyses indicated decreased use of on site physicians and preemployment examinations and decreased industrial retention of health information on new employees. The authors conclude that while industry as a whole is providing increased worker access to health care, industrial use of on site physicians is decreasing and the role of the on site medical practitioner is increasingly being filled by nurses and allied medical personnel; at the same time, services that cannot be performed by nonphysicians are apparently being relegated to off site sources of physicians. The authors suggest that the nature of the changes in the access of workers to physicians trained in occupational medicine should be a subject of further research. Description provided by NIOSH
• Subjects:
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services
  • Health Personnel
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Workplace
• Keywords:
  • NIOSH-Author
  • Worker-health
  • Medical-care
  • Industrial-medicine
  • Occupational-medicine
  • Health-surveys
  • Workplace-studies
  • Medical-facilities
  • Medical-personnel
  • Health-care-facilities
  More +
• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• 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:
  151-165
• Volume:
  15
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00188258
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 1989 Feb; 15(2):151-165
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1989
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/205617/cdc_205617_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 879.46 KB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3a70ce3e36c1faca04d8e8b52341d8f555b7b7f271f44e060249857a240fac5d93d46f759223899a76b04aeccc08006dc21e867352de4e5aed53efccf72c7de2