Implementation of statutory occupational respiratory health surveillance

Implementation of statutory occupational respiratory health surveillance.

Health surveillance is required by UK regulations in certain circumstances, and is usually provided through an occupational health organization. Although there are studies assessing the provision of health surveillance across the country, there are no published studies addressing the practical application of legislation, guidelines and medical research to respiratory health surveillance program...

Health surveillance for occupational respiratory disease.

BACKGROUND Occupational lung diseases remain common, and health surveillance is one approach used to assist identification of early cases. AIMS To identify areas of good practice within respiratory health surveillance and to formulate recommendations for practice. METHODS Published literature was searched since 1990 using a semi-systematic methodology. RESULTS A total of 561 documents wer...

Surveillance in occupational health.

Adefinition of surveillance is as follows: “surveillance (ser-vâ lens) noun. 1. Close observation of a person or group, especially one under suspicion. 2. The act of observing or the condition of being observed” (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992). The term “surveillance” is derived from the French word meaning “to watch over”....

Stepwise health surveillance for bronchial irritability syndrome in workers at risk of occupational respiratory disease.

OBJECTIVES Questionnaires, lung function tests, and peak flow measurements are widely used in occupational health care to screen for subjects with respiratory disease. However, the diagnostic performance of these tests is often poor. Application of these tests in a stepwise manner would presumably result in a better characterisation of subjects with respiratory disease. METHODS Cross sectiona...

Surveillance of work related and occupational respiratory disease--SWORD.