New Mexico Occupational Health Surveillance: Fundamental Program

描述(申请人提供)：新墨西哥州卫生部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，并确保所有新墨西哥人都可以获得基本的公共卫生职能和安全网服务。职业健康是这项使命不可或缺的一部分。拟议资金的主要目标将是继续监测活动，并在新墨西哥州职业病、有毒物质暴露、危险和伤害监测计划的基础上再接再厉。具体目标将是继续确定与工作有关的健康问题的规模和分布，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该部进行的公共卫生监测的所有方面，并利用国家卫生组织批准的监测方法，利用现有的行政数据集进行职业健康监测。其他目标是改善向政策制定者、公共和职业健康人员传达职业健康分析结果 从业者、行业和工人。拟议的资金将侧重于帮助采矿和建筑等高风险行业的工人，以及可能面临健康差距的工人群体，如美洲原住民、移民工人和农村地区的工人。该项目将与新墨西哥大学合作，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行业合作，制定预防职业病和行业的干预措施。

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.