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原文传递 PAR-14-275 State OH Surveillance Cooperative Agreement. Performance Period: July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016.

题名：	PAR-14-275 State OH Surveillance Cooperative Agreement. Performance Period: July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016.
作者：	Beauchamp, R. A.
关键词：	Surveillance programs, Occupational health programs, Health care, Texas (state), Health services, Surveillance, Data processing, Information dissemination, Information systems, Databases, Recordkeeping, Poison control, Statistical analysis, Mortality data, Pesticides, Health standards, Accident statistics, Motor vehicles, Occupations, Hazard communication, Demographic characteristics, Mercury, Mercury vapors, Health care facilities, Health care personnel
摘要：	Funded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) from July 2015 through June 2016, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Occupational Health and Safety and Pesticide Exposure Surveillance in Texas program worked to bring attention to occupational health issues. The program conducted population-based occupational health and safety surveillance for all occupational health indicators in order to estimate their magnitude and trends in Texas. Additionally, DSHS conducted surveillance for all occupational pesticide, silicosis, and asbestosis exposures. The program extracted information from additional data sources, including hospital discharge, poison control network, vital statistics, EMS & Trauma Registries, and Texas Department of Transportation crash records, to further characterize occupational injuries and illnesses and identify emerging issues. By looking at these data sources, we determined that adolescent occupational toxic exposures may be an unrecognized hazard in the Texas and that there is frequent underreporting or lack of access to medical care among farmworkers. By linking crash and trauma data we were able to assess county-level associations between oil and gas well activity and commercial motor vehicle-associated crash fatalities and show that counties with more active wells have higher rates of commercial motor vehicle-related fatal motor vehicle crashes than counties with few or no active wells. We collaborated with the Texas Department of Agriculture to investigate occupational exposure to pesticides occurring in farmworkers. We conducted outreach and education at over 60 meetings, workshops, and training events attended by hundreds of workers, students, employers, and public health professionals, and gave presentations and/or distributed brochures on various occupational health topics, including adult lead exposure, childhood lead exposure resulting from parental occupational lead exposure, silicosis, asbestosis, work-related pesticide illness and injury, and workplace falls.
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