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Objectives and Subobjectives
Goal: Promote the health and safety of people at work through prevention and early intervention.
As a result of the Healthy People 2010 Midcourse Review, changes were made to the Healthy People 2010 objectives and subobjectives. These changes are specific to the following situations:
- Changes in the wording of an objective to more accurately describe what is being measured.
- Changes to reflect a different data source or new science.
- Changes resulting from the establishment of a baseline and a target (that is, when a formerly developmental objective or subobjective became measurable).
- Deletion of an objective or subobjective that lacked a data source.
- Correction of errors and omissions in Healthy People 2010.
Revised baselines and targets for measurable objectives and subobjectives do not fall into any of the above categories and, thus, are not considered a midcourse review change.1
When changes were made to an objective, three sections are displayed:
- In the Original Objective section, the objective as published in Healthy People 2010 in 2000 is shown.
- In the Objective With Revisions section, strikethrough indicates text deleted, and underlining is used to show new text.
- In the Revised Objective section, the objective appears as revised as a result of the midcourse review.
Details of the objectives and subobjectives in this focus area, including any changes made at the midcourse, appear on the following pages.
1See Technical Appendix for more information on baseline and target revisions.
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NO CHANGE IN OBJECTIVE (Data updated and footnoted) |
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| 20-1. |
Reduce
deaths from work-related injuries. Target and baseline:
Target setting method: Better than the best for 20-1a; 30 percent improvement for 20-1b, 20-1c, 20-1d, and 20-1e. (Better than the best will be used when data are available.) Data source: Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), DOL, BLS. 1 Baseline revised from 14.6 after November 2000 publication. 2 Target revised from 10.2 because of baseline revision after November 2000 publication. 3 Baseline revised from 24.1 after November 2000 publication. 4 Target revised from 16.9 because of baseline revision after November 2000 publication. |
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ORIGINAL OBJECTIVE |
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| 20-2. |
Reduce work-related injuries
resulting in medical treatment, lost time from work, or restricted work
activity. Target and baseline:
Target setting method: 30 percent improvement. (Better than the best will be used when data are available.) Data sources: Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses, DOL, BLS; National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), CPSC. |
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OBJECTIVE WITH REVISIONS |
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| 20-2. |
Reduce work-related injuries
resulting in medical treatment, lost time from work, or restricted work
activity. Target and baseline:
Target setting method: 30 percent improvement. (Better than the best will be used when data are available.) Data sources: Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII), DOL, BLS; National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), CPSC, and NIOSH. |
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REVISED OBJECTIVE |
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| 20-2. |
Reduce work-related injuries
resulting in medical treatment, lost time from work, or restricted work
activity. Target and baseline:
Target setting method: 30 percent improvement. (Better than the best will be used when data are available.) Data sources: Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII), DOL, BLS; National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), CPSC, and NIOSH. 1 Baseline and baseline year revised from 4.8 and 1997 after November 2000 publication. 2 Target revised from 3.4 because of baseline revision after November 2000 publication. |
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NO CHANGE IN OBJECTIVE |
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| 20-3. |
Reduce the rate of injury and
illness cases involving days away from work due to overexertion or repetitive
motion.
Target: 338 injuries per 100,000 full-time workers. Baseline: 675 injuries per 100,000 full-time workers due to overexertion or repetitive motion were reported in 1997. Target setting method: 50 percent improvement. (Better than the best will be used when data are available.) Data source: Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII), DOL, BLS. |
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NO CHANGE IN OBJECTIVE |
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| 20-4. |
Reduce pneumoconiosis deaths. Target: 1,900 deaths. Baseline: 2,928 pneumoconiosis deaths among persons aged 15 years and older occurred in 1997. Target setting method: 10 percent fewer than the number of pneumoconiosis deaths projected for 2010 based on a 15-year trend (1982–97). Data source: National Surveillance System for Pneumoconiosis Mortality (NSSPM), CDC, NIOSH. |
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NO CHANGE IN OBJECTIVE |
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| 20-5. |
Reduce deaths from work-related
homicides. Target: 0.4 deaths per 100,000 workers. Baseline: 0.5 deaths per 100,000 workers aged 16 years and older were work-related homicides in 1998. Target setting method: 20 percent improvement. (Better than the best will be used when data are available.) Data source: Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), DOL, BLS. |
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NO CHANGE IN OBJECTIVE (Data updated and footnoted) |
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| 20-6. |
Reduce work-related assaults. Target: 0.781 assaults per 100 workers. Baseline: 1.102 assaults per 100 workers aged 16 years and older were work-related during 1987–92. Target setting method: 29 percent improvement. (Better than the best will be used when data are available.) Data source: National Crime Victimization Survey, DOJ, BJS. 1 Target revised from 0.60 after November 2000 publication. 2 Baseline revised from 0.85 after November 2000 publication. |
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ORIGINAL OBJECTIVE |
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| 20-7. |
Reduce the number of persons who
have elevated blood lead concentrations from work exposures. Target: Zero persons per 1 million. Baseline: 93 per million persons aged 16 to 64 years had blood lead concentrations of 25 µg/dL or greater in 1998 (25 States). Target setting method: Total elimination. Data source: Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance Program, CDC, NIOSH. |
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OBJECTIVE WITH REVISIONS |
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| 20-7. |
Reduce the proportion Target: Zero Baseline: 12.1 per Target setting method: Total elimination. Data source: Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance Program (ABLES), CDC, NIOSH. |
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REVISED OBJECTIVE |
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| 20-7. |
Reduce the proportion of adults who
have elevated blood lead concentrations. Target: Zero per 100,000 employed adults. Baseline: 12.1 per 100,000 employed adults aged 16 years and older had blood lead concentrations of 25 µg/dL or greater in 1998 (24 States). Target setting method: Total elimination. Data source: Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance Program (ABLES), CDC, NIOSH. |
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NO CHANGE IN OBJECTIVE |
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| 20-8. |
Reduce occupational skin diseases
or disorders among full-time workers. Target: 47 new cases per 100,000. Baseline: 67 new cases of occupational skin diseases or disorders per 100,000 full-time workers occurred in 1997. Target setting method: 30 percent improvement. (Better than the best will be used when data are available.) Data source: Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII), DOL, BLS. |
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NO CHANGE IN OBJECTIVE |
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| 20-9. |
Increase the proportion of
worksites employing 50 or more persons that provide programs to prevent or
reduce employee stress. Target: 50 percent. Baseline: 37 percent of worksites with 50 or more employees provided worksite stress reduction programs in 1992. Target setting method: 35 percent improvement. Data source: National Worksite Health Promotion Survey (NWHPS), Partnership for Prevention and OPHS, ODPHP. |
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ORIGINAL OBJECTIVE |
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| 20-10. |
Reduce occupational needlestick
injuries among health care workers. Target: 420,000 annual needlestick exposures. Baseline: 600,000 occupational needlestick exposures to blood occurred among health care workers in 1996. Target setting method: 30 percent improvement. (Better than the best will be used when data are available.) Data sources: National Surveillance System for Health Care Workers, CDC, NCID, NCHSTP, NIP, NIOSH. |
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OBJECTIVE WITH REVISIONS |
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| 20-10. |
Reduce occupational needlestick
injuries among hospital-based health care workers. Target: Baseline: Target setting method: 30 percent improvement. (Better than the best will be used when data are available.) Data sources: National Surveillance System for Health Care Workers (NaSH), CDC, NCID, |
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REVISED OBJECTIVE |
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| 20-10. |
Reduce occupational needlestick
injuries among hospital-based health care workers. Target: 269,000 annual needlestick exposures to blood among hospital-based health care workers. Baseline: 384,000 occupational needlestick exposures to blood occurred among hospital-based health care workers in 1998. Target setting method: 30 percent improvement. (Better than the best will be used when data are available.) Data sources: National Surveillance System for Health Care Workers (NaSH), CDC, NCID, and Exposure Prevention Information Network (EPINet), International Health Care Worker Safety Center, University of Virginia. |
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NO CHANGE IN OBJECTIVE |
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| 20-11. |
(Developmental) Reduce new cases of
work-related, noise-induced hearing loss. Potential data source: Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII), DOL, BLS. |
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