Occupational and Environmental Health Surveillance

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• Personal Author:
  Davis, Letitia ; Souza, Kerry ; Davis, Letitia ; Souza, Kerry
• Description:
  This chapter describes various approaches to occupational and environmental health surveillance. It begins by defining public health surveillance and the basic principles of surveillance, emphazing the critical link between data and action and the importance of using surveillance findings to improve worker and community health. It describes case-based surveillance, population-based surveillance, rate-based surveillance, and hazard surveillance. It describes surveillance systems, including those based on physician reporting and on laboratory reporting. The chapter provides a description of the major occupational health surveillance systems and environmental health surveillance activities in the United States, and includes examples of how data have been translated to action. It concludes in identifying some of the surveillance challenges and opportunities related to 21st century changes in the workplace, the ambient environment, and information technology. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Demography Environmental Exposure Environmental Health Environmental Monitoring Environmental Pollution Hazardous Substances Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Occupational Health Public Health Risk Assessment Safety Surveys And Questionnaires

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• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Surveillance Case-based Surveillance Demographic-characteristics Employee-health Environmental-hazards Environmental-health Exposure-assessment Hazard Surveillance Health-hazards Health-surveys Laboratory Reporting Medical-monitoring Medical-screening Occupational-health Occupations Physician Reporting Population-based Surveillance Public-health Questionnaires Rate-based Surveillance Risk-analysis Surveillance-programs Surveillance Systems Work-practices

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• ISBN:
  9780190662677
• Publisher:
  Oxford University Press
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Book ; Book
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Massachusetts ; New York ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  101-113
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20050791
• Citation:
  Occupational and environmental health: recognizing and preventing disease and injury, 7th edition. Levy BS, Wegman DH, Baron SL, Sokas RK, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017 Dec; :101-113
• Editor(s):
  Levy BS; Wegman DH; Baron SL; Sokas RK ; Levy BS; Wegman DH; Baron SL; Sokas RK
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational and environmental health: recognizing and preventing disease and injury, 7th edition
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/211005/cdc_211005_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.92 MB ]