Abstract (Gorman DF. From police to health adviser: the evolution of modern occupational
health surveillance. SPUMS J 2003; 33: 134-139) Occupational health surveillance differs …

Surveillance and health screening in occupational health Page 815 40 Surveillance and Health
Screening in Occupational Health Gregory R. Wagner• Lawrence J. Fine ► INTRODUCTION …

Public health surveillance, in response to these and many other questions, provides
answers that ultimately lead to prevention. Surveillance is “the ongoing systematic …

Counting how much and determining under what circumstances diseases occur are the
basic principles upon which preventive health programmes are built. The lack of accurate …

This paper explores the current state of the art in occupational health surveillance. A flow
diagram is presented which shows how various sources of data can be combined to …

Generic medical surveillance and generic exposure monitoring together with periodic
updating of permissible exposure limits (PELs) have been proposed as a more …

An international conference in Luxembourg on Ambient and Biological Monitoring in the
Workplace brought out the difference in meaning between medical “surveillance” and …

This report explains the basics of two important uses of surveillance data: determining the
magnitude of a specific occupational health or injury problem and examining temporal …

Health surveillance is required by UK regulations in certain circumstances, and is usually
provided through an occupational health organization. Although there are studies assessing …

Surveillance systems in occupational medicine have been created to monitor the rates of
occurrence of recognized health problems or hazards or to identify and follow-up'cases' of …