Occupational Health Disparities in North Carolina, 2013, and Eleven-Year Trend (2003–2013)

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• Corporate Authors:
  North Carolina. Department of Health and Human Services. Division of Public Health
• Description:
  Occupational health disparities are defined as differences in disease incidences or risks to health from work exposures that exist across racial and ethnic worker populations. These disparities result in part from the high concentration of certain racial/ethnic minorities in high-risk jobs and hazardous industries, and lack of complete safety awareness and interventions among certain worker populations due to social, cultural, or economic barriers. As the North Carolina workforce becomes more diverse as more people migrate from outside the state, certain worker populations (e.g. racial/ethnic minorities) will be at high risk for work-related injury or illness for a variety of reasons. For instance, foreign-born immigrant workers may be unaware of local laws, or received poor or very little formal training in their native language regarding worker safety and health protection. Past efforts to describe occupational fatalities in North Carolina have also shown patterns in work-related deaths by race/ethnicity. For example, rates of occupational fatalities among Hispanic workers have been persistently higher than among other racial/ethnic groups. Describing occupational health disparities in North Carolina is important to help understand and address the risks to workers in the state. This report used employment data and methods developed by Michigan to describe how different racial/ethnic categories of workers are concentrated in different low and high-risk occupations, and the association between race/ethnicity and rates of work-related fatalities. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Emigration And Immigration Minority Health Mortality Occupational Health Race Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Fatalities Immigrant Workers Minority Health Occupational Health Disparities Racial Factors
• Publisher:
  North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-11
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067529
• Citation:
  Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, 2016 Jun; :1-11
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20150701
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational health disparities in North Carolina, 2013, and eleven-year trend (2003-2013)
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:23774dbc83a9ee9c1f49e2dd7d475bca470d27449ab199423aa922453a597944d52754852154c33ac0c0c93ef4fbddc3c4e4109a96b48285aed498e3d88cc818
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/230919/cdc_230919_DS1.pdf
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