HEALTH SURVEILLANCE OF WORKERS

HEALTH SURVEILLANCE OF
WORKERS
Monitoring the health of workers is to perform
procedures and investigations to assess
their health, providing protection to and provide
individual and collective health promotion
in the workplace, as well as to the health of
the population exposed to risks in In order to
maintain a state of complete
physical, mental and social wellbeing
and not merely the absence
of disease or infirmity, as
well as primary prevention of occupational
accidents and diseases
and work-related.
This surveillance system as a
tool of public health, refers to a system with
functional capacity for data collection,
analysis and dissemination of data related to
health programs in the workplace. It covers
activities at the level of the individual, the
working group, the company, the community,
to detect and assess any significant
alteration caused by working conditions,
through individual and collective health
assessments.
Programs of health surveillance of workers
should be used for prevention, especially
for:
1. Describe the health status of working
populations and socio-economic groups, by
the estimate of the incidence of accidents
and diseases (frequency, severity
and trends in mortality and morbidity)
2. To promote epidemiological studies of
work and explain the causes of accidents
and diseases, by identifying the physical,
behavioral, organizational, psychosocial
and work-related exposure, which are at
the origin of injuries and specific diseases,
or constitute risk factors.
3. Predict the incidence of accidents and
occupational diseases and their distribution
in the working population, specifically
to focus them and prevent them.
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