Overview

This is the first textbook that makes workplace health surveillance accessible to a broad audience. Step-by-step, it shows how to establish or improve a surveillance system. The reader learns about defining objectives, seeking organizational support, forming a surveillance workgroup, collecting data, calculating basic injury and illness statistics, designing databases, analyzing and interpreting surveillance data, setting priorities, making protocols for follow-up and case management, marketing results and giving feedback, and evaluating surveillance systems. Links are emphasized between surveillance and workplace follow-up, community-based intervention programs, cost-benefit analysis, and other prevention activities. Readers get a solid foundation of epidemiologic concepts reinforced by examples that use simple arithmetic. Leading practitioners from government, business, and unions illustrate the surveillance of injuries, lead poisoning, pesticide illness, cumulative trauma disorders, asthma, noise-induced hearing loss, silicosis, cancer, and chemical and physical hazards. Non-traditional data sources are examined, including health and disability insurance, hospital discharge, and poison control centers. Disability surveillance, return-to-work, and the quality/effectiveness of health services also are explored. Surveillance is shown to be an action-oriented tool for decision-making that is the key to a successful health and safety program.

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Author:   Neil A. Maizlish ,  Neil A. Maizlish
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 22.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 28.60cm
Weight:   1.234kg
ISBN:  

9780195128888

ISBN 10:   0195128885
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   30 November 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

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, and 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, and 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, and Kathy A. Dervin,: Closing the Loop: Impact of a Lead Poisoning Prevention Project 26: Linda A. Rudolph and Neil A. Maizlish: Frontiers of Occupational Health Surveillance

Reviews

There is really no other comprehensive resource for occupational disease surveillance. This book is essential reading for those involved in occupational disease surveillance programs, as well as for workplace-based occupational safety and health staff and committees. --Tim Morse, PhD, University of Connecticut Health Center

""There is really no other comprehensive resource for occupational disease surveillance. This book is essential reading for those involved in occupational disease surveillance programs, as well as for workplace-based occupational safety and health staff and committees.""--Tim Morse, PhD, University of Connecticut Health Center

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