The NIOSH Surveillance Strategic Plan
Research is needed to evaluate existing systems and approaches for conducting surveillance. The National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) Surveillance Research Methods Team has begun efforts to increase the level of research to improve occupational surveillance. Numerous potential sources of occupational health and safety data exist but may have been neither fully evaluated nor utilized for surveillance purposes. The use of nontraditional data sources and linkages of data systems are virtually unexplored.
Conduct and support research to evaluate existing surveillance systems.
Support the development of new approaches for occupational surveillance, including surveillance of populations at high risk, and special populations.
Support follow-back investigations and focused surveys of groups at high risk, in order to supplement existing surveillance data.