Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses for the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-Related Burden of Disease and Injury

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• Personal Author:
  Driscoll T ; Momen NC ; Pega F ; Ujita Y ; Whaley P ; Driscoll T ; Momen NC ; Pega F ; Ujita Y ; Whaley P
• Description:
  Accurate and transparent global health estimates of the work-related burden of disease and injury are key to policy and practice in occupational and workers' health and safety, at the workplace, enterprise, national, regional and global levels. Governments, workers, employers and other stakeholders require these to design, plan, cost, implement and evaluate effective actions to prevent work-related loss of life and health. Global health estimates from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) comply with the strict statistical rules and guidelines of both organizations and are reported according to the Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting (GATHER) (Stevens et al. 2016). Ideally, such estimates should be based on comprehensive and transparent systematic review and synthesis of the latest evidence relating to exposure to occupational risk factors and health outcomes. This Special Issue presents a series of 15 systematic reviews, developed to support estimation of global exposure to occupational risk factors and the attributable burden of disease. It also presents several novel methodological tools developed specifically for conducting these systematic reviews. The systematic reviews have been produced as a collaborative effort between WHO and ILO, who have been working together since 2016 to produce these estimates. As a collection, they are unique and agenda-setting, presenting a model for a significant step forward in developing occupational and environmental burden of disease estimates. Moreover, they may also provide a suitable evidence synthesis model for producing other global health norms and standards, such as indicators, health risk assessments, and technical guidelines. In this editorial, we summarise the new processes that have been implemented; identify key innovations in conducting the systematic reviews; highlight their implications for future practice across and beyond the occupational and environmental health and safety domains; and draw out lessons for future estimation of burden of disease and other scenarios where scientific research is reviewed and synthesised to inform policy and practice. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Environmental Health Health Effects Occupational Exposure Occupational Safety Systematic Reviews
• ISSN:
  0160-4120
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article ; Journal Article
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Volume:
  155
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20068092
• Citation:
  Environ Int 2021 Oct; 155:106605
• Contact Point Address:
  Frank Pega, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland
• Email:
  pegaf@who.int
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20140515
• Source Full Name:
  Environment International
• End Date:
  20170514
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b7d9bfa36de5ef05e5e0c9010331dfeeb3976e81477a15b66689d85868fc1f37aa0d1570abc3089ec51259e2ae4376417d837ee56a291de8017705eceb17b506
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/230310/cdc_230310_DS1.pdf
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