The World Trade Center Responder Health Consortium Data and Coordination Center

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• Personal Author:
  Crowley L ; Herbert R ; Kim H ; Landrigan, Philip J. ; Levin SM ; Metzger, K. ; Sacks H ; Shanna V ; Skloot G ; Sloan N ; Solan S ; Teitelbaum S ; Todd AC ; Wallenstein S ; Zarcadoolas C
• Description:
  The September 11th, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC), resulted in major public health issues for the many thousands of responders who worked or volunteered on the WTC rescue and recovery effort. As a response to the attacks, the Mount Sinai-Irving J. Selikoff Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City proposed the establishment of a comprehensive World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program. This was approved by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and began on April 8th, 2002. The first screening examinations were conducted on July 16, 2002. The Screening Program provided free, confidential, initial exams to the WTC responders and, in 2004, became the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program which provides periodic exams of the responders. Treatment was added in 2006. Incidence of most conditions was highest in the first two years after September 11th, 2001 and in responders with the greatest exposure. As well as being common, the health effects are persistent; nine years after the attacks of September 11th, 2001, responders continue to experience a substantial burden of often co-existing physical and mental health problems. The key findings of this work have been the identification of the need for ongoing monitoring and treatment of the 911 responder population, and the importance of providing adequate health coverage for these men and women. In addition, it is clear that planning for future disasters must anticipate the likelihood of persistent physical and mental illness in responders. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Emergencies Emergency Responders Environmental Exposure Environmental Monitoring Firefighters Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Promotion Law Enforcement Mental Health Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Safety

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• Keywords:
  Emergency-responders Emergency-response Environmental-exposure Exposure-assessment Fire-fighters Health-care Health-programs Health-services Medical-examinations Medical-monitoring Medical-screening Medical-treatment Mental-health Physiological-effects Police-officers Preventive-medicine Psychological-effects Rescue-workers Surveillance-programs

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• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Final Cooperative Agreement Report
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-28
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046127
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U10-0H-008232, 2011 Jun; :1-28
• Contact Point Address:
  Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., M.Sc., Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1057, New York, NY 10029-6574
• Email:
  phil.landrigan@mssm.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• Performing Organization:
  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040601
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20110630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:55b2931d85ad25da3cb76bb1f84b0bc54203bd91d1c5ea61cb9b4fc2d6d61d50d04673d5ea79f1d72705c27ad53c13291937ae4f07f0cca38edfe1c0d72d1f8d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218593/cdc_218593_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.56 MB ]