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Occupational Epidemiology |
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Disease surveillance is the systematic collection,
analysis, and interpretation of health data in order to detect, control, and
prevent health problems. Epidemiologic surveillance is the macroscopic
surveillance perspective, carried out primarily by public health agencies on a
statewide or nationwide basis. These efforts seek to identify and quantify
illness, injury or excessive exposure, and monitor trends in their occurrence
across different industry types, over time, and between geographic areas.
Medical surveillance, by contradistinction, focuses its surveillance components
on the hazards and potential hazards of a particular workplace, company or group
of workers.
- Halperin, W., E.L. Baker, and R. Monson. Public Health Surveillance.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992.
- Ordin, DL. "Surveillance, Monitoring, and Screening in Occupational
Health."
Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 13th ed. Last, J.M. and R.B.
Wallace, eds. Stanford, CT: Appleton and Lange, 1992.
Federal-based data
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Health and Safety
Programs. US Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Health, Safety and
Security.
Provides for medical surveillance and/or special workers' compensation for
former DOE workers.
State-based data
- Utah
Health Data Committee. Utah Department of Health, Office of Health Care
Statistics Interactive Databases. Query the Utah
Hospital Discharge Database for results based on number of discharges, average
length of stay, average total charges and types of injuries as well as other
data collected.
Data Sets
Mortality
- Occupational Mortality in Washington State 1950 - 1989. US Department of Health
and Human Services (DHHS), National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health (NIOSH) Publication No. 96-133, (1997, March). Also available as 1
MB PDF, 182
pages. Provides occupational
and cause-of-death information on 588,090 Washington State male deaths for
1950-1989 and 88,071 female deaths for 1974-1989 and was analyzed using an age
and year-of-death standardized proportionate mortality ratio program. A
detailed cause-of-death analysis (161 causes) is published for each of 219
occupational categories for males and for each of 68 occupational
categories for females.
Morbidity
- Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities.
US Department of Labor (DOL), Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Provides data on
illnesses and injuries on the job and data on worker fatalities.
- National
Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics.
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Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC). Gives access to the Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System (BRFSS), the world’s largest, on-going telephone
health survey system, tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the
United States yearly since 1984.
Methods
General, occupational, and environmental epidemiology
methods may be found in the following texts:
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