|
Disease Foci - lung, skin, vibration, noise (and/or combination of) |
Biologic Exposures i.e. infectious diseases, moulds, etc.
|
Health Care Sector
|
| Prevention |
- Lung/skin disease - actual practices of workers – what is being done re prevention, training, implementation, etc.
|
- Buildings and practices – materials and design to prevent mould growth + maintenance recommendations
|
- Health care setting – worker/infection control mgt. - prediction of effective programs/practices
|
| Early detection. Identification, recognition - surveillance |
- Lung/ skin disease – underreporting – why?
-
Noise and vibration effects on performance
-
Whole body vibration impact on physiology
|
- Long term effects of exposures – build way to recognize earlier
- Missed infectious diseases
|
- Audit tool development
- Surveillance re infectious diseases in hospitals – what is actually going on.
|
| Outcomes
|
- Data base development – build an exposure data base from disease data bases
RTW, quality of life, good health care
|
- Data base development – link and develop further what already exists - in support of knowledge transfer below
|
- Data base development
-
Post SARS – respiratory protection programs – outcome evaluation
- TB. HEP B,C etc – programs evaluation
|
| Dissemination to change – understanding, behaviour, policies & practices |
- Clinical Tool Kit development – evaluation of impact on clinician and workplace practices
|
- Knowledge transfer (translation & education) - availability of scientific facts/evidence information to support decision making in industry
|
- Increase involvement of workplace parties
Development and evaluation re infection control to build ownership for outcomes
|