Enhancing State-Based Occupational Health Surveillance Capacity

 描述(申请人提供)：项目摘要/摘要职业伤害和疾病是重大的公共卫生问题。在美国，每年都有数以千计的工人在工作中受伤致死。与工作相关的疾病更难衡量，并造成巨大的人力和经济代价。然而，这些伤害和疾病是可以预防的。让工作场所变得更安全、更健康的成功方法始于拥有了解问题所需的信息。基于州的监测(SBS)计划可以提供关于职业病和伤害的迫切需要的数据，并生成必要的信息，以增强和评估传统数据源。各国可以积极地将监测结果与工地和社区的干预工作联系起来，利用国家干预资源以及与机构和社区合作伙伴的日常工作关系，这些合作伙伴可以利用监测数据采取行动。国家和地区流行病学家理事会(CSTE)通过提供州职业健康监测(OHS)信息和数据的中央储存库，向各州提供了技术援助，以建设职业健康(OH)能力，并促进国家监测数据的使用。科技咨询委员会对其网站进行了改进，使所有州都可以查阅指标数据，向能力最低或没有能力的州通报生成这些数据的简便性和实用性，并共享联系信息和指向州政府卫生部门方案及其报告和工具的链接。CSTE OHS小组委员会制定和实施了各种活动，以帮助各州向多个受众传达关于州方案所做的工作以及它们的努力如何为改善工人的健康和安全做出贡献的信息。这项提案阐述了州职业公共卫生计划之间以及这些州计划与国家职业安全与健康研究所(NIOSH)之间在职业安全与健康方面持续合作的重要性和必要性，以提高全国的职业安全与健康能力。拟议的活动涉及五个具体目标，通过国家和领土流行病学家理事会的组织结构扩大了近15年来一直在进行的活动。拟议的目标包括：与NIOSH合作开发和维护OHI方法和数据；开发指南、“示范”产品、成功案例和其他沟通战略；将OHS和预防纳入更广泛的公共卫生实践；为NIOSH资助和非资助的州项目能力建设的会议和研讨会提供差旅支持；以及促进州、地区和国家合作，以提高美国的OHS能力。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary/Abstract Occupational injuries and illnesses are significant public health problems. Each year in the U.S., thousands of workers are fatally injured at work. Work-related disease is more difficult to measure and impose substantial human and economic costs. However, these injuries and illnesses can be prevented. Successful approaches to making workplaces safer and healthier begin with having the information necessary to understand the problem. State-based surveillance (SBS) programs can provide critically needed data on occupational disease and injuries and generate information necessary to augment and evaluate conventional data sources. States can actively link surveillance findings with intervention efforts at the worksite and the community, drawing on state-based intervention resources and day-to-day working relationships with agency and community partners who can use surveillance data to take action. The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) has provided states with technical assistance to build occupational health (OH) capacity and promote the use of state surveillance data by providing a central repository for state-based occupational health surveillance (OHS) information and data. CSTE has enhanced its website to provide all states with access to indicator data, inform states with minimal or no capacity about the ease and utility of generating these data, and share contact information and links to state OH programs and their reports and tools. The CSTE OHS Subcommittee has developed and implemented a variety of activities to assist states in reaching multiple audiences with messages about what the state programs do and how their efforts contribute to improved health and safety for workers. This proposal addresses the importance and need for ongoing collaborations in OHS among state occupational public health programs and between these state programs and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to improve OHS capacity in the nation. The proposed activities, which address five Specific Aims, expand on activities that have been ongoing for nearly 15 years through the organizational structure of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE). Proposed objectives include: collaboration with the NIOSH to develop and maintain OHI methods and data; development of guidance, `model' products, success stories, and other communication strategies; integration of OHS and prevention into broader public health practice; provision of travel support for meetings and workshops that build capacity in NIOSH-funded and unfunded state programs; and promotion of state, regional, and national collaboration to increase OHS capacity in the U.S.