Maryland Occupational Health Surveillance Project

描述：(申请人提供)：马里兰州正在卫生和精神卫生部门(DHMH)内重建职业病监测基础。这项提案将创建马里兰州职业安全和健康监测项目(OHSSP)。该项目将加强目前的职业病报告要求，并促进职业病监测，将其作为卫生部全面职业和环境健康监测计划的组成部分。这项建议的具体目标是：(1)在DHMH内建立一个永久性的职业病监测结构，该结构将积极促进全面的和在该州目标职业部门内的职业健康和安全监测；(2)加强职业病监测系统与州哮喘控制计划、癌症控制计划和环境公共卫生跟踪(EPHT)计划的现有关系；(3)整合DHMH、马里兰州环境部、马里兰州职业安全和健康计划以及地方卫生部门内针对工作场所室内空气质量计划的活动；以及(4)将职业病监测活动与卫生部和国家正在进行的职业病预防工作联系起来。该项目创新性地利用新的环境公共卫生跟踪基础设施，将环境和职业病监测整合到环境卫生和环境卫生协调中心内，为在职业卫生领域密切合作和使用新的地理信息系统资源创造了机会。

DESCRIPTION: (Provided by applicant): Maryland is reestablishing a foundation for occupational disease surveillance within the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH). This proposal would create the Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Surveillance Project (OHSSP). The project would strengthen current occupational disease reporting requirements, and promote occupational disease surveillance as an integral component of a comprehensive occupational and environmental health surveillance program within DHMH. The specific aims of this proposal are to: (1) Create a permanent occupational disease surveillance structure within DHMH, that will actively promote occupational health and safety surveillance generally and within targeted occupational sectors of the State; (2) Strengthen the pre-existing relationships of the occupational disease surveillance system with the State's asthma control program, cancer control program, and environmental public health tracking (EPHT) program; (3) Integrate activities within DHMH, the Maryland Department of Environment, the Maryland Occupational Safety and Health program, and local health departments that address indoor air quality programs in workplaces; and (4) Link occupational disease surveillance activities with ongoing occupational disease prevention efforts of MOSH and the State. The project makes innovative use of a new environmental public health tracking infrastructure to integrate environmental and occupational disease surveillance within the DHMH Center for Environmental Health Coordination, creating opportunities for close collaboration and the use of new geographic information systems resources in occupational health.