Workplace health surveillance : an action-oriented approach /

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This text shows step-by-step how to establish or improve a workplace health surveillance system. It explains how to define objectives, seek organizational support, form a surveillance workgroup, collect data, calculate basic injury and illness statistics, design databases, analyze and interpret surv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Maizlish, Neil A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2000.
Temas:
Occupational health services.
Public health surveillance.
Work environment.
Occupational Health Services > methods
Occupational Diseases > epidemiology
Population Surveillance > methods
Workplace
Occupational Health Services
Services de médecine du travail.
Santé publique > Surveillance.
Milieu de travail.
workplace.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Genitourinary & STDs.
MEDICAL > Urology.
Work environment
Occupational health services
Public health surveillance
Bedrijfsgezondheidszorg.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Principles. Introduction
  • Getting organized
  • Collecting data
  • Measuring injury and disease frequency
  • Comparing rates of injury and disease
  • Protocols for case reporting and follow-up
  • Analysis and interpretation
  • Feedback
  • Evaluation and planning
  • Surveillance and the design of occupational health information systems. Case studies. Lead poisoning and elevated blood lead
  • Acute pesticide poisoning
  • Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • Silicosis
  • Noise-induced hearing loss
  • Asthma
  • Injury surveillance at Ford Motor Company
  • Health and disability insurance
  • Cancer mortality surveillance
  • Fatal injury surveillance
  • Exposure surveillance for chemical and physical hazards
  • Hospital discharge data
  • Poison control centers
  • Workers' compensation information systems
  • Closing the loop : impact of a lead poisoning prevention project
  • Frontiers of occupational health surveillance. Appendices. A: Standardized forms used in occupational health surveillance
  • B: Questionnaires for active surveillance of cumulative trauma disorders
  • C: Statistics for describing distributions
  • D: Analysis and annual report for an individual workplace
  • E: Example of a rate-based analysis at an individual workplace
  • F: Economic analysis and employer-based surveillance
  • G: Questionnaires for the follow-up of elevated blood lead
  • H: Field investigation : evaluation of selected jobs for risk factors for carpal tunnel syndrome and other cumulative trauma disorders, food manufacturing workers, Santa Clara County
  • I: Recommended medical screening protocol for workers exposed to occupational allergens.

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