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Surveillance and Occupational Health
International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1999This report explains the basics of two important uses of surveillance data: determining the magnitude of a specific occupational health or injury problem and examining temporal trends to determine whether the problem is increasing or decreasing. Types of data available for the purpose and some of their strengths and weaknesses are described.
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2022
Abstract Health and safety legislation requires an employer to ensure as far as reasonably practicable the health, safety and welfare of workers; where appropriate this may include a requirement for health surveillance. Failure of the employer or the provider to undertake health surveillance appropriately may result in sanction, and may ...
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Abstract Health and safety legislation requires an employer to ensure as far as reasonably practicable the health, safety and welfare of workers; where appropriate this may include a requirement for health surveillance. Failure of the employer or the provider to undertake health surveillance appropriately may result in sanction, and may ...
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Health Surveillance of Microwave Hazards
American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal, 1970Since the early 1940's, industrial use of electronic equipment that emits electromagnetic energy in the microwave region has increased. Concurrent with this growth has been the development of data on the biological effects of this form of radiant energy and the establishment of exposure criteria.
C H, Powell, V E, Rose
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The Public Health Surveillance of Asthma
Journal of Asthma, 2001Asthma is a highly prevalent disease that affects the quality of life of many people in the United States. Yet there is limited descriptive epidemiological understanding of the disease, particularly at the state and local levels. Minimal surveillance of asthma is occurring across the country.
L P, Boss +5 more
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The Science of Public Health Surveillance
Journal of Public Health Policy, 1989Improved public health surveillance can lead to earlier implementation of prevention and control measures. Better surveillance data lead to a more rational establishment of priorities. More timely and accurate data facilitate earlier epidemic detection and control.
S B, Thacker +2 more
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An Ethics for Public Health Surveillance
The American Journal of Bioethics, 2020Levinson et al. (2020) describe a lack of guidance for ethical action that might result from public health surveillance findings.
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Environmental Public Health Surveillance
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 1996A holistic and collaborative approach needs to be taken in the development of environmental public health surveillance systems. Exposure and hazard surveillance integrated with outcome-based surveillance will blend fragmented strands of data into streams of information.
S C, Macdonald +2 more
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2015
This chapter describes the application of statistical methods for health surveillance, including those for health care quality monitoring and those for disease surveillance. The former includes adverse event surveillance as well as the monitoring of non-disease health outcomes, such as rates of caesarean section or hospital readmission rates.
Rigdon, Steven E., Fricker, Ronald D.
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This chapter describes the application of statistical methods for health surveillance, including those for health care quality monitoring and those for disease surveillance. The former includes adverse event surveillance as well as the monitoring of non-disease health outcomes, such as rates of caesarean section or hospital readmission rates.
Rigdon, Steven E., Fricker, Ronald D.
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Health surveillance for occupational asthma
Current Opinion in Allergy & Clinical Immunology, 2018Purpose of review The outcome for workers with occupational asthma is improved for those with an earlier diagnosis. Health surveillance at work is in principle designed to identify such cases, so that the risks to the individual worker, and coworkers, can be reduced.
David, Fishwick, Steve, Forman
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Health surveillance - myth and reality
Journal of Radiological Protection, 1998This paper discusses the principles, health benefit and cost-effectiveness of health surveillance in the occupational setting, which apply to exposure to ionising radiations in the same manner as to other hazards in the workplace. It highlights the techniques for undertaking health surveillance, discusses their relative advantages and disadvantages and
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