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Illinois Occupational Surveillance Program



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    Workplace injuries claim the health, well-being, productivity and lives of hundreds of people every year. Low wage workers, teens and older workers, immigrants and people with disabilities are disproportionally affected by these injuries. The Illinois Occupational Surveillance Program (IOSP) was established to prevent occupational illnesses and injuries in the State, with a focus on underserved worker populations. IOSP, created with NIOSH funding in 2010, gathered and focused Federal and State data sources to uncover hazardous working conditions and to establish a longitudinal data collection system for evaluating intervention effectiveness. The basic approach was to explore databases that were not previously used for occupational surveillance. This work entailed linking cases across databases, comparing state with national data, studying high risk workforces, reviewing economic outcomes, evaluating health inequities, and building a more complex understanding of how work related injury and illness (WRII) comes about and its long term consequences. Sustainability requires demonstration of IOSP's value, and the commitment of government, employers, workers, and community based organizations. In the first five years, IOSP established a website and produced 14 peer-reviewed publications, 12 conference presentations, 9 grant proposals, 8 published reports, 7 testimonies or press releases, 9 fact sheets, 5 industry spotlights, and 14 Hazard Datasheets on Occupation. Bona fide agents (academicians) strengthened the relationship with the Illinois Department of Public Health. Investigators also work closely with the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission, Region V and Illinois OSHA, and several worker advocacy organizations. The key findings of this work are: 1. A tight collaboration between university investigators, federal and state agencies, and community groups facilitates a productive and robust occupational health surveillance system that can tackle prevention focused activities 2. CSTE Occupational Health Indicators can be easily assembled by state health department agents from many data sources, state agencies, and data managers and provided to NIOSH on an annual basis 3. Methods used in other epidemiologic research can be brought to bear on occupational surveillance: data linkage of sentinel health indicators across multiple state databases yields a much higher number of cases than is captured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and also shows a more detailed picture of how WRIIs occur and their long term consequences; geographic information systems can help identify communities at risk for occupational injury and provide evidence of work as a determinant of health; refinement of injury severity scoring would assist in better understanding the consequences of traumatic occupational injury; use of robust regression for workers' compensation economic data provides a more complex understanding of costs 4. Workers compensation databases provide a rich source of information for occupational surveillance 5.There is a need for occupational surveillance expertise by international bodies, federal and state policymakers, community based organizations, and data systems managers which can be filled by university partners in an occupational State Based Surveillance system. 6. Occupational and non-work-related injury surveillance can be easily integrated and can provide a holistic picture of health risks to working adults; it can also further methodologic work that benefits both general and occupational injury epidemiology. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Funding:
    Cooperative Agreement
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  • Pages in Document:
    1-24
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20048088
  • NTIS Accession Number:
    PB2016-103296
  • 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, U60-OH-009850, 2015 Nov; :1-24
  • Contact Point Address:
    Linda Forst, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health. 2121 W. Taylor Street, MC 922, Chicago, IL 60612
  • Email:
    Forst-L@uic.edu
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2016
  • Performing Organization:
    University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Peer Reviewed:
    False
  • Start Date:
    20100701
  • Source Full Name:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  • End Date:
    20150630
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    urn:sha-512:720a383ff0df3c93fab6abb582324d1b67914ab6c7652a94dc011a1556a786ad33d4c2f72b859ab5731df70068bd529c364c43ee0d6b589592a3d49a6494123e
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