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Advent of occupational health services research *
Author(s) -
Deitchman Scott,
Dembe Allard E.,
Himmelstein Jay
Publication year - 2001
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/ajim.1103
Subject(s) - medicine , health care , occupational safety and health , agency (philosophy) , occupational medicine , lagging , occupational health nursing , health policy , public health , hrhis , workers' compensation , environmental health , nursing , compensation (psychology) , economic growth , psychology , psychoanalysis , economics , philosophy , epistemology , pathology
After lagging behind health services research in general health care, research is now examining health services provided to workers suffering occupational injuries and illnesses. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Workers' Compensation Health Initiative, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (now the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality), and the Canadian Institute for Work and Health co‐sponsored a June, 1999, conference to explore research needs in this area. Fundamental tenets for advancing occupational health services research include: adopting the goal of improving occupational health care, including better integration of preventive and curative care; creating standardized interstate occupational health care data sets that include medical, economic, and patient perspectives; better defining quality in occupational care and developing appropriate performance measures; in addition to medical costs, assessing social, economic, medical and functional outcomes of care; considering the connections between work and health, including general health services; and addressing the need to train qualified occupational health services researchers. Am. J. Ind. Med. 40:291–294, 2001. Published 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.