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Klappentext This text shows step-by-step how to establish or improve a workplace health surveillance system. It explains how to define objectives, seek organizational support, form a surveillance workgroup, collect data, calculate basic injury and illness statistics, design databases, analyze and interpret surveillance data, set priorities, make protocols for follow-up and case management, market results and give feedback, and evaluate surveillance systems. Surveillance is shown to be an action-oriented tool for decision-making that is key to a successful health and safety program. Zusammenfassung This textbook explains how to establish or improve a surveillance system. Government, business and union practitioners illustrate the surveillance of injuries, lead poisoning, pesticide illness, cumulative trauma disorders, asthma, noise-induced hearing loss and chemical and physical hazards. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I Principles 1: Neil A. Maizlish: Introduction 2: Neil A. Maizlish: Getting Organized 3: Neil A. Maizlish: Data Collecting 4: Neil A. Maizlish: Measuring Injury and Disease Frequency 5: Neil A. Maizlish: Comparing Rates of Injury and Disease 6: Neil A. Maizlish: Protocols for Case Reporting and Follow-up 7: Neil A. Maizlish: Analysis and Interpretation 8: Neil A. Maizlish: Feedback 9: Neil A. Maizlish: Evaluation and Planning 10: Neil A. Maizlish: Surveillance and the Design of Occupational Health Information Systems Part II Case Studies 11: Neil A. Maizlish and Linda A. Rudolph: Lead Poisoning / Elevated Blood Lead 12: Neil A. Maizlish, Linda A. Rudolphon, and Kathy A. Dervin: Acute Pesticide Poisoning 13: Neil A. Maizlish, Linda A. Rudolph, Kathy A. Dervin: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome 14: Kenneth D. Rosenman and Mary Jo Reilly: Silicosis 15: Mary Jo Reilly and Kenneth D. Rosenman: Noise-Induced Hearing Loss 16: Kenneth D. Rosenman and Mary Jo Reilly: Asthma 17: Gordon R. Reeve: Injury Surveillance at Ford Motor Company 18: Robert M. Park: Health and Disability Insurance 19: Michael A. Silverstein, Neil A. Maizlish, Robert M. Park,and Franklin E. Mirer: Cancer Mortality Surveillance 20: E. Lynn Jenkins: Fatal Injury Surveillance 21: Anthony D. LaMontagne, James Ruttenber, and David H. Wegman: Exposure Surveillance for Chemical and Physical Hazards 22: Martha W. Stanbury: Hospital Discharge Data 23: Paul D. Blanc, Neil A. Maizlish, Linda A. Rudolph: Poison Control Centers 24: Neil a. Maizlish and Linda A. Rudolph: Workers' Compensation Information Systems 25: Jim Bellows, Linda A. Rudolph, Neil A. Maizlish, Kathy A. Dervin, Linda A. Rudolph, Neil A. Maizlish: Closing the Loop: Impact of a Lead Poisoning Prevention Project 26: Linda A. rudolph and Neil A. Maizlish: Frontiers of Occupational Health Surveillance ...
