Advances and Current Themes in Occupational Health and Environmental Public Health Surveillance
| Autor: | Gary M. Marsh, Jeffrey D. Shire, Evelyn O. Talbott, Ravi K. Sharma |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health International health General Medicine Health promotion Public health surveillance Population Surveillance Occupational health nursing Environmental health Health care medicine Humans business Environmental Health Occupational Health Health policy |
| Zdroj: | Annual Review of Public Health. 32:109-132 |
| ISSN: | 1545-2093 0163-7525 |
| DOI: | 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-082310-152811 |
| Popis: | The essential purpose of public health surveillance is to monitor important health outcomes and risk factors and provide actionable information to practitioners, policy makers, researchers, and the public to prevent or ameliorate exposure, disease, and death. Although separate 1970s-era acts of Congress made possible the creation of modern occupational health and environmental public health surveillance, these acts also led to fragmented responsibilities and unconnected data across federal agencies. Having a well-defined purpose for systematically collecting relevant data is key, and state and local programs play a crucial role in conducting meaningful surveillance and connecting it with evidence-based outreach and interventions. Congress has directed monies to environmental public health surveillance and capacity has improved, yet no analagous funding has occurred to address the fragmentation found within occupational health surveillance. This article provides a review of the advances and important themes within occupational health and environmental public health surveillance over the past decade. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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