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What is fundamental surveillance?
Fundamental surveillance is the generation of 19 Occupational Health Indicators (OHIs) for the purpose of identifying patterns of work-related injury, illness, and death. When additional data sources are available, they are used to augment the OHIs and improve our understanding of work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths.
What is an Occupational Health Indicator?
An Occupational Health Indicator is a specific measure of a work-related disease or injury, or a factor associated with occupational health, such as workplace exposures, hazards, or interventions, in a specified population. These indicators can be generated by states to track trends in the occupational health status of the working population. Examples of occupational health indicators include counting the number of work-related deaths and work-related pesticide poisonings.
Why use Occupational Health Indicators?
- Anticipate early problem areas for attention
- Reduce preventable workplace injuries
- Measure baseline health of worker populations and measure trends over time
- Increase consistency and availability of occupational disease and injury surveillance data
Who conducts fundamental surveillance?
The Oregon Public Health Program (OPHP) conducts fundamental surveillance. Fundamental surveillance is one of three projects that OPHP is currently funded through the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to do. A major project activity is generating the 19 occupational health indicators for Oregon.
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Putting Data to Work: Occupational Health Indicators from Thirteen Pilot States for 2000
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), in collaboration with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, has developed a set of 19 occupational health indicators. A workgroup of state CSTE representatives went through a multi-year process of defining these OHIs. Thirteen states then agreed to pilot the generation of data from 2000 for these 19 indicators. These data serve as a baseline, from which comparisons and trends over time can be tracked.
Putting Data to Work: Occupational Health Indicators from Thirteen Pilot States for 2000 (pdf)
Oregon-specific data
2000-2005 (xls)
2000-2005 (pdf)
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Occupational Health Indicators: A Guide for Tracking Occupational Health Conditions and Their Determinants (pdf)
Putting Data to Work: Occupational Health Indicators from Thirteen Pilot States for 2000 (pdf)
Worker Health Chartbook, 2004 (pdf)
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