Developing regional workplace health and hazard surveillance in the Americas

Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 376-381

  Choi, Bernard C K ^a,b,c   Tennassee, L Maritza ^d   Eijkemans, Gerry J M ^e,f  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hazard surveillance; Health surveillance; Occupational health; Occupational sentinel health event; Prioritization; Workers' health

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

HEALTH MONITORING; MONITORING SYSTEM; OCCUPATION; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; INTOXICATION; LOW BACK PAIN; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORKPLACE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; LATIN AMERICA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0035688780     PISSN: 10204989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1020-49892001001200002     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Development of indicators for occupational health and safety surveillance: The Thai and Pan American Health Organization experiences
2. Prioritization of occupational sentinel health events for workplace health and hazard surveillance: The Pan American Health Organization experience
3. Occupational sentinel health events: An updated list for physician recognition and public health surveillance
4. Perspectives on epidemiologic surveillance in the 21st century
5. Prevention guidelines for evaluating surveillance systems
6. Evaluating public health surveillance systems
7. The need for global risk factor surveillance
8. Recording, notification, compilation, and classification of statistics of occupational accidents and diseases: The Thai experience
9. Bias in analytic research
10. Classification, direction, and prevention of bias in epidemiologic research
11. Bias, overview
12. Definition, sources, magnitude, effect modifiers, and strategies of reduction of the healthy worker effect
13. A technique to reassess epidemiologic evidence in light of the healthy worker effect: The case of firefighting and heart disease