Connecticut Occupational Health Expanded Surveillance

描述（由申请人提供）：本拟议项目的主要目标是扩大康涅狄格州职业病监测的能力。这种监测能力不仅包括通过康涅狄格州职业病监测系统收集和分析与职业病有关的数据的能力，而且还包括利用这些分析结果针对具体干预活动的能力。此外，在何种程度上建立信息交流和公共卫生职业健康单位的康涅狄格州部门和它的合作伙伴之间保持有兴趣在我们的国家，区域和国家保护工人的健康是该计划的持续成功的关键。我们建议通过针对拟议项目具体目标的活动实现这一主要目标，这些目标是：1）通过比较现有数据来源，继续对康涅狄格州职业病漏报情况进行纵向分析2）继续对康涅狄格州职业健康指标进行纵向分析3）继续扩大对与工作有关的哮喘和重金属中毒的监测活动4）扩大康涅狄格州职业安全与健康规划和行动网络的职责范围，以包括目标设定活动和改善我们州职业健康监测和干预的建议5）与其他东北州的职业健康合作伙伴就具体监测活动保持区域合作，包括对选定的职业健康指标的扩展分析。这些具体目标的制定是为了支持康涅狄格州职业病监测的核心能力，并保持现有监测和干预计划的连续性，项目期限。这些方案和他们支持的工作人员提供了在康涅狄格州的工人健康保护的基础，不仅通过监测和干预活动，而且还通过如何使我们的方案活动更高效，更有效，更有利于康涅狄格州劳动力的健康产生的想法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary objective of this proposed project is to expand capacity for occupational disease surveillance in Connecticut. This surveillance capacity includes not only the ability to collect and analyze data pertaining to occupational diseases through the Connecticut Occupational Disease Surveillance System, but also the ability to utilize the results of those analyses to target specific intervention activities. In addition, the degree to which information exchange is established and maintained between the Connecticut Department of Public Health Occupational Health Unit and its partners interested in protecting worker health within our state, regionally, and nationally is critical to the continued success of the program. We propose to achieve this primary objective through activities addressing the specific aims of the proposed project, which are: 1) to continue longitudinal analysis of occupational disease underreporting in Connecticut through comparison of existing data sources 2) to continue longitudinal analysis of the occupational health indicators for Connecticut 3) to continue expanded surveillance activities for work-related asthma and heavy metals poisoning 4) to broaden the scope of duties for the Connecticut Occupational Safety and Health Planning and Action Network to include goal setting activities and recommendations for improving occupational health surveillance and intervention in our state 5) to maintain regional collaboration with occupational health partners from the other Northeast states on specific surveillance activities, including expanded analysis of selected occupational health indicators These specific aims have been developed to support the core capacity for occupational disease surveillance in Connecticut and to maintain continuity in existing surveillance and intervention programs for the duration of the project period. These programs and the staff they support provide the basis for the protection of worker health in Connecticut, not only through surveillance and intervention activities but also through the generation of ideas of how to make our program activities more efficient, effective, and beneficial to the health of the Connecticut workforce.