1/2 Occupational Health Research, Policy & Capacity Building in Thailand-Thailand

描述(申请人提供)：我们建议加强工作、环境、营养和人类发展中心(CWEND)的能力，使其成为亚太地区职业安全和健康的跨学科地理健康中心。这一规划期将用于规划研究、培训和课程开发，并发展由科学家和政策制定者组成的跨学科网络，以解决对泰国经济发展至关重要的几个工作场所部门的工人健康和安全问题。尽管泰国拥有强大的基本职业健康和安全(OSH)基础设施，为规模较大的私营部门工作场所的工人提供基本的OSH保护，但其他工作场所部门在OSH方面仍然存在差距。作为将学术研究与制定保护工人健康和安全的新政策相结合的典范，我们将重点关注非正规部门和医疗保健部门，这些部门不在当前的职业安全和健康法规范围内。我们建议收集有关这些行业新的职业安全健康政策措施的差距和机会的数据，以便制定一个优先的研究议程来支持这些措施。我们还建议收集泰国非正规和医疗保健部门工人的职业安全经验、关注事项和面临的问题的背景调查数据。CWEND将与Mahidol公共卫生学院、马萨诸塞大学工作环境、护理和社区健康与可持续发展系现有的DrPH和新的OSH博士项目合作，与泰国公共卫生教育机构网络(ThaipHEIN)合作，扩大现有教职员工和研究生的研究能力，以产生高质量的研究，以支持泰国OSH的新政策倡议。CWEND还将计划利用东南亚公共卫生教育机构网络(SEAPHEIN)和亚太公共卫生学术联盟(APACPH)网络将研究能力培训扩大到其他区域合作伙伴，Mahidol大学在这两个网络中都发挥了领导作用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to enhance the capacity of the Center for Work, Environment, Nutrition and Human Development (CWEND) to become an interdisciplinary Asia-Pacific GEOHealth Hub in Occupational Safety and Health. This planning period will be used to plan for research, training and curriculum development, and to develop the interdisciplinary network of scientists and policy-makers necessary to address worker health and safety concerns in several workplace sectors critical to the expansion of the Thai economy. Although Thailand has a strong basic occupational health and safety (OSH) infrastructure that provides fundamental OSH protections to workers in larger sized private sector workplaces, gaps in OSH still exist in other workplace sectors. As a model for the integration of academic research with the development of new policies to protect worker health and safety we will focus on the informal and healthcare sectors, which are not covered under current OSH regulations. We propose to collect data on the perceived gaps and opportunities for new OSH policy initiatives in these sectors, in order to develop a prioritized research agenda to support these initiatives. We also propose to collect background survey data on the OSH experience, concerns and issues faced by Thai workers in the informal and health care sectors. CWEND will work with the existing DrPH and the new PhD program in OSH at the Mahidol Faculty of Public Health, the University of Massachusetts' Departments of Work Environment, Nursing and Community Health and Sustainability in collaboration with the Thai Public Health Education Institutes Network (ThaiPHEIN), to expand the research capacity of current faculty, staff and graduate students to produce high quality research in support of new policy initiatives for OSH in Thailand. CWEND will also plan to expand research capacity training to other regional partners using the South East Asian Public Health Educational Institutes Network (SEAPHEIN) network and the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) network, in both of which Mahidol University plays a leadership role.