Developing national indicators for occupational health

Developing indicators for environment and health.

This article demonstrates the need for indicators in the policy-making process and presents some of the current work on developing environmental indicators at the international, national and local levels. The paucity of indicators to demonstrate relationships between environment and health is outlined and a causal chain for physical pollutants--from source activity to emission, concentration an...

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Developing Responsive Indicators of Indigenous Community Health

How health is defined and assessed is a priority concern for Indigenous peoples due to considerable health risks faced from environmental impacts to homelands, and because what is "at risk" is often determined without their input or approval. Many health assessments by government agencies, industry, and researchers from outside the communities fail to include Indigenous definitions of health an...

Developing indicators to enhance school health.

There are many indicators used to assess the processes and outcomes of school health promotion and education programs and initiatives. This paper examines the development of such indicators, and the different foci on the biological, behavioral, social and contextual aspects of child and adolescent health measures. It then develops a framework for categorizing them. The variety of stakeholders w...

Setting national targets to improve occupational health.

This paper describes a national strategy to improve occupational health and a longitudinal view of a 15 year project undertaken in the UK, logging the key developments. The first results should become apparent in 2005. Progress will be reported.