Occupational Health and Injury Surveillance in Louisiana

Details

• Personal Author:
  Reilly A ; Soileau S
• Description:
  The Louisiana Occupational Health and Injury Surveillance Program (LOHIS) is a Fundamental-Plus Program housed in the Louisiana Department of Health's Office of Public Health. The program has grown an established and productive state-based occupational health surveillance program that has compiled and analyzed data for occupational health indicators, promoted use of findings with stakeholders for outreach and intervention, cultivated occupational health partners at the local, state, and federal level, and prepared reports, articles, and presentations of surveillance findings. This project has continued to enhance LOHIS's occupational health surveillance capacity. Expansion of outreach and prevention activities has occurred by leveraging the resources, skills and expertise of its network of partners and stakeholders, and the program's active population surveillance system has been improved through acquisition of new sources of occupational health data and development of targeted surveillance for priority issues affecting Louisiana's workforce. The program also continued to play a key public health role in identifying and responding to emerging and emergent occupational hazards and issues. The overall goal of the surveillance system is to improve worker safety and health through surveillance data that identify high-risk occupations and industries, emerging issues, and trends and to promote the use of these data to reduce occupational injuries, diseases, and mortality through targeted prevention actions. Specific aims of the project/program included, continue to acquire, analyze and interpret occupational health indicator data, including follow-up investigation of elevated blood lead cases; identify and respond to emerging and emergent events that impact Louisiana workers; identify and develop new occupational health data sources; develop and implement targeted surveillance system for occupational heat-related illness, including collection of causes and risk factors; periodically compile and analyze surveillance data and prepare reports, publications, and presentations; continue to interact regularly with partners and stakeholders to prioritize relevant issues for Louisiana workers, disseminate findings, and develop prevention strategies and interventions based on surveillance findings; and evaluate and improve program performance. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Occupational Health Public Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Blood Lead Levels Disease Prevention Information Dissemination Injury Prevention Occupational Health Public Health Surveillance Programs Training
• 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:
  Louisiana ; OSHA Region 6
• 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:
  1-45
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066174
• 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-010915, 2021 Oct; :1-45
• Contact Point Address:
  Anna Reilly, PhD, MPH, Louisiana Department of Health, Office of Public Health, Section of Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology, Occupational Health and Injury Surveillance Program, 1450 Poydras Street, Suite 1631, New Orleans, LA 70112
• Email:
  anna.reilly@la.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  Louisiana State Office of Public Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20150720
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e7090f51443106cb82b0cf33a1c57ce280ad0e60b1a61ce3dce1d6c91ca88a1838b5e3eee10bebeeb4e67580f72a3f986f25f1133c9db8325a2b4449545f4526
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219146/cdc_219146_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.17 MB ]