Traumatic Injury at Work in New Hampshire: Utilization of the New Hampshire Traumatic Emergency Medical Services Information System Data for Occupational Health 2009 to 2011

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• Personal Author:
  Armenti KR
• Description:
  The New Hampshire Occupational Health Surveillance Program (NH OHSP) is tasked with conducting surveillance on work-related injuries and illnesses among New Hampshire workers. These efforts can be complex, as no single database captures all work-related events or detailed information about each incident. The NH OHSP applies a public health approach to identify and address the most compelling traumatic injury risks facing workers across all industry sectors. Injury surveillance identifies, characterizes, prioritizes, and tracks injuries and fatalities. In order to provide a more comprehensive analysis on the magnitude of work-related injuries, the NH OHSP utilizes unique sources of injury data, such as the NH Trauma Emergency Medical Services Information System, or TEMSIS. TEMSIS warehouses data collected by public and private Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel after they are called to respond to an incident. This dataset includes a field that indicates if an incident was work-related. Because the majority of private industry work-related incidents are injuries (94.8%) and not illnesses, EMS data are extremely relevant for injury surveillance. It is important to note, however, that this study represents a convenience sampling of events in a specific dataset (results show percentage of population in TEMSIS). While we cannot conclude the exact burden of overall work-related injuries in New Hampshire, information from this study will contribute toward efforts of key occupational health stakeholders in developing targeted strategies for the prevention of more traumatic work-related injuries. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Database Demography Emergency Responders Environmental Exposure Mortality Occupational Health Public Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Databases Demographic Characteristics Emergency Responders Emergency Treatment Exposure Levels Fatalities Injuries Public Health Surveillance Surveillance Programs Traumatic Injuries Work Environment Workers

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• Publisher:
  New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  New Hampshire ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049761
• Citation:
  Concord, NH: New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health Services, Occupational Health Surveillance Program, 2013 Nov; :1-5
• Contact Point Address:
  Karla R. Armenti, ScD, Occupational Health Surveillance Program, Bureau of Public Health Statistics & Informatics, Division of Public Health Services, 29 Hazen Drive, Concord, NH 03301
• Email:
  karmenti@dhhs.state.nh.us
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• Performing Organization:
  New Hampshire State Department of Health Statistics and Data Management
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20100701
• Source Full Name:
  Traumatic injury at work in New Hampshire: utilization of the New Hampshire traumatic emergency medical services information system data for occupational health 2009 to 2011
• End Date:
  20150630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4af8668ebad2ae1d693617c38718ca5de7461f11f628eba016574e7b09ca058afc294acfd5f5e6c5d18ab6162f18072f2d9917cf72f5cb3c4b01d84b3569bdb1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210399/cdc_210399_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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