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This is the first textbook that makes workplace healthsurveillance accessible to a broad audience. Step-by-step,it shows how to establish or improve a surveillance system. The reader learns about defining objectives, seekingorganizational support, forming a surveillance workgroup,collecting data, calculating basic injury and illnessstatistics, designing databases, analyzing and interpretingsurveillance data, setting priorities, making protocols forfollow-up and case management, marketing results and givingfeedback, and evaluating surveillance systems. Links areemphasized between surveillance and workplace follow-up,community-based intervention programs, cost-benefitanalysis, and other prevention activities. Readers get asolid foundation of epidemiologic concepts reinforced byexamples that use simple arithmetic. Leading practitionersfrom government, business, and unions illustrate thesurveillance 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.
