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Core Surveillance of Occupational Health in New York.

PB2021100203

Publication Date	2006
Personal Author	Gelberg, K. H.; Grey, A.
Page Count	41
Abstract	Activities performed under the Core Surveillance of Occupational Health in New York cooperative agreement focused on improving case ascertainment and establishing communication channels and partnerships for conducting prevention. BOH was successful in establishing a framework for communicating with reporting sources and other key stakeholders about occupational health surveillance and in developing and evaluating outreach methods and tools. The achieved successes represent concrete products that can benefit occupational illness and injury surveillance programs in other States. Specifically, the work focused upon developing an outreach model to enhance reporting to an occupational health surveillance system. Specific recommendations were developed for communicating with healthcare facilities, healthcare providers, and with the working community. The findings from this project can be used by any occupational health surveillance program and will assist them in either enhancing or developing communication strategies with reporting sources. Models have been developed and evaluated for communicating with healthcare providers to encourage their compliance with occupational disease reporting regulations, and to enhance reporting to occupational disease registries from healthcare facilities. A separate effort was made to increase awareness of occupational diseases among the working community. While difficult to show in a short period of time, the evaluation indicated that affecting short-term outcomes such as knowledge, attitudes and behavior among healthcare providers is possible. It is important to remember that all activities need to be continued on a regular basis to sustain these improvements. Moreover, as part of this effort, the program demonstrated its ability to integrate its surveillance efforts for work-related asthma with ongoing public health efforts to address asthma in New York, and in doing so, established a model for other programs to follow. It is still too early to determine if the increases in case ascertainment achieved as a result of these outreach activities will translate into prevention activities. However, the enhancements to the case ascertainment aspect of the surveillance program established the capacity for conducting population-based surveillance and engaging in meaningful prevention activities.
Keywords	Surveillance programs Occupational health Information dissemination Health communications Occupational diseases Occupational asthma Public health Disease prevention
Source Agency	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NTIS Subject Category	91F - Health Services 43C - Human Resources 57U - Public Health & Industrial Medicine 44 - Health Care
Corporate Authors	Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	202114

Core Surveillance of Occupational Health in New York.

Core Surveillance of Occupational Health in New York.
PB2021100203

Publication Date	2006
Personal Author	Gelberg, K. H.; Grey, A.
Page Count	41
Abstract	Activities performed under the Core Surveillance of Occupational Health in New York cooperative agreement focused on improving case ascertainment and establishing communication channels and partnerships for conducting prevention. BOH was successful in establishing a framework for communicating with reporting sources and other key stakeholders about occupational health surveillance and in developing and evaluating outreach methods and tools. The achieved successes represent concrete products that can benefit occupational illness and injury surveillance programs in other States. Specifically, the work focused upon developing an outreach model to enhance reporting to an occupational health surveillance system. Specific recommendations were developed for communicating with healthcare facilities, healthcare providers, and with the working community. The findings from this project can be used by any occupational health surveillance program and will assist them in either enhancing or developing communication strategies with reporting sources. Models have been developed and evaluated for communicating with healthcare providers to encourage their compliance with occupational disease reporting regulations, and to enhance reporting to occupational disease registries from healthcare facilities. A separate effort was made to increase awareness of occupational diseases among the working community. While difficult to show in a short period of time, the evaluation indicated that affecting short-term outcomes such as knowledge, attitudes and behavior among healthcare providers is possible. It is important to remember that all activities need to be continued on a regular basis to sustain these improvements. Moreover, as part of this effort, the program demonstrated its ability to integrate its surveillance efforts for work-related asthma with ongoing public health efforts to address asthma in New York, and in doing so, established a model for other programs to follow. It is still too early to determine if the increases in case ascertainment achieved as a result of these outreach activities will translate into prevention activities. However, the enhancements to the case ascertainment aspect of the surveillance program established the capacity for conducting population-based surveillance and engaging in meaningful prevention activities.
Keywords	Surveillance programs Occupational health Information dissemination Health communications Occupational diseases Occupational asthma Public health Disease prevention
Source Agency	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NTIS Subject Category	91F - Health Services 43C - Human Resources 57U - Public Health & Industrial Medicine 44 - Health Care
Corporate Authors	Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	202114