NJ Occupational Health Surveillance

 描述（由申请人提供）：NJDOH职业健康监测单位（OHS）打算继续与国家职业安全与健康研究所长期成功的合作关系。职业健康和安全局建议利用这一资助机会，加强对职业伤害、疾病和死亡进行监测的能力，以减少或消除对健康的不利影响，确定现有数据来源中的差距，并为教育和宣传材料提供建议。该项目的第一个目标是利用来自卫生保健系统、公共卫生监测、卫生保健提供者报告和媒体的现有数据，查明和调查与职业伤害、疾病和死亡有关的案件。利用NJDOH和医疗保健提供者报告保存的现有出院管理数据（住院和急诊）数据和死亡证明，项目小组将收集和分析职业伤害、疾病和死亡病例。一旦发现病例，项目团队将通过患者访谈、病历审查和工作场所评估等方式调查和确认潜在病例。项目工作人员将总结目标1中的数据收集结果，以便对职业伤害、疾病和死亡进行全面评估。总结报告中还包括任何文献综述的结果，这些文献综述确定了新的或新兴的行业或职业，这些行业或职业构成了增加的风险。在确定了新的或正在出现的目标人群之后，研究小组将开始建立多组织协作。最后，目标1和目标2的研究结果将推动针对具体行业和职业的深入教育干预措施的制定和实施。还将考虑是否有合作者、拟议活动达到目标人口的可行性和所需资源。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The NJDOH Occupational Health Surveillance Unit (OHS) intends to continue its long and successful collaborative relationship with the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. OHS proposes to use this funding opportunity as a means to build a stronger capacity to conduct surveillance on occupational injuries, illnesses and fatalities in order to reduce or eliminate adverse health impacts, identify gaps in existing data sources and provide recommendations for educational and outreach materials. This project's first aim will identify and investigate cases associated with occupational injuries, illnesses and fatalities utilizing existing data from health care systems, public health surveillance, health care provider reporting and media. Utilizing existing hospital discharge administrative data (in-patient hospitalizations and emergency department visits) data and death certificates maintained by NJDOH and health care provider reports, the project team will collect and analyze cases of occupational injuries, illnesses and fatalities. Once cases are identified, the project team will investigate and confirm potential cases by means of patient interviews, medical records review and workplace evaluation. Project staff will summarize the results of the data collection in Aim 1 to provide an overall assessment of occupational injuries, illnesses and fatalities. Also included in the summary report are the results of any literature reviews that identify industries or occupations, new or emerging, which pose an increased risk. After the new or emerging target populations have been identified, the research team will begin building a multi-organizational collaboration. Finally, the development and implementation of in-depth educational interventions for specific industries and occupations will be driven by the findings from Aims 1 and 2. The availability of collaborators, feasibility of reaching the target population sustainability of the proposed activity and resources required will also be considered.