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Methodological challenges to the study of occupational injury—An international epidemiology workshop
Author(s) -
Courtney Theodore K.,
Burdorf Alex,
Sorock Gary S.,
Herrick R.F.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
american journal of industrial medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1097-0274
pISSN - 0271-3586
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0274(199708)32:2<103::aid-ajim1>3.0.co;2-#
Subject(s) - medicine , epidemiology , intervention (counseling) , occupational safety and health , occupational injury , injury prevention , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , suicide prevention , population , environmental health , gerontology , pathology , psychiatry
Occupational and work‐related injuries comprise the majority of reported workplace morbidity in the employed population in the United States. Despite intervention attempts, the overall trend for these injuries has been relatively stable over the past several decades. Three significant problems are raised as potentially contributing to this stability. Minimal progress in reduction may be due to: lack of etiologic understanding, lack of appropriate intervention selection, or lack of appropriate intervention implementation. Focusing on the first of these problems, a workshop symposium of injury epidemiologists and related scientists was held that developed a series of collaborative manuscripts on issues in injury epidemiology and recommendations for future research. The contributions of each are briefly summarized. Am. J. Ind. Med. 32:103–105, 1997. © 1997 Wiley‐Liss Inc.