New Mexico Occupational Health Surveillance: Fundamental Program

描述（由申请人提供）：卫生部的新墨西哥州的使命是促进健康和健全的卫生政策，预防疾病和残疾，改善卫生服务系统，并确保基本的公共卫生职能和安全网服务提供给所有新墨西哥人。职业健康是这一使命的组成部分。拟议资金的主要目标将是继续监测活动，并建立在职业病，毒性暴露，危害和伤害监测计划的新墨西哥州。具体目标将是继续查明与工作有关的健康问题的程度和分布情况，跟踪趋势，并针对负责任的行业或工作流程进行干预。拟议资金的目标是将职业健康监测纳入卫生部进行的公共健康监测的各个方面，并使用NIOSH批准的监测方法，利用现有的行政数据集进行职业健康监测。其他目标是改善职业健康分析结果与决策者、公众和职业健康的沟通 从业人员、行业和工人。拟议的资金将侧重于向采矿和建筑等高风险行业的工人以及可能面临健康差异的工人群体，如美洲原住民，移民工人和农村地区的工人进行宣传。该项目将与新墨西哥州大学合作，以实现卫生部的使命。NMDOH和UNM将与新墨西哥州职业健康和安全局、新墨西哥州环境部和新墨西哥州农业部等州机构以及劳工组织和工业界合作，制定预防职业病和工业的干预措施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of the New Mexico Department of Health is to promote health and sound health policy, prevent disease and disability, improve health services systems and assure the essential public health functions and safety net services are available to all New Mexicans. Occupational health is an integral part of this mission. The main goal of the proposed funding will be to continue surveillance activities and build upon the occupational illness, toxic exposure, hazard, and injury surveillance program for the State of New Mexico. Specific goals will be to continue to identify the magnitude and distribution of work-related health problems, track trends, and target responsible industries or work processes for intervention. Objectives for the proposed funding will be to integrate occupational health surveillance into all aspects of public health surveillance conducted by the Department and to conduct occupational health surveillance using existing administrative data sets applying NIOSH approved surveillance methods. Additional goals are to improve the communication of occupational health analyses results to policy makers, public and occupational health practitioners, industry and workers. The proposed funding will focus on outreach to workers in high risk industries such as mining and construction, and to groups of workers who may face health disparities, such as Native Americans, migrant workers and workers in rural areas. The project will work collaboratively with the University of New Mexico to achieve the Department of Health mission. Together NMDOH and UNM will partner with state agencies such as the New Mexico Occupational Health and Safety Bureau, New Mexico Environment Department and New Mexico Department of Agriculture, as well as labor organizations and industry to develop interventions for the prevention of occupational illness and industry.