The Health Hazard Evaluation Program at NIOSH Reviews of Research Programs of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (2009) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
Pages 13-19
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The Committee to Review the NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluation (HHE) Program was formed in 2007 to carry out an independent evaluation of the HHE Program under the following charge: The National Academies will appoint an ad hoc committee to carry out an independent evaluation of the impact, relevance, and future directions of the NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluation (HHE)
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This committee is asked to determine whether the HHE Program contributes to occupational health in the workplace, as well as whether the program positively affects policy, other research programs, and the health and safety community in general. The charge to the committee specifically includes transfer of information as part of impact, although the methodology and evaluation framework (hereafter called the Framework Document)
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Public health surveillance is the "ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dis semination of data regarding a health-related event for use in public health action to reduce morbidity and mortality and to improve health. Data disseminated by a public health surveillance system can be used for immediate public health action, program planning and evaluation, and formulating research hypotheses" (MMWR, 2001b:2)
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This evaluation committee uses the term "underserved populations" when referring to vulnerable populations. THE EVALUATION PROCESS Information Gathering The committee reviewed material submitted by the HHE Program in the form of an "evidence package" that describes the HHE Program's legislative founda tions, organizational structure and management, resources, activities, and outputs (NIOSH, 2007b)
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, but have been slightly modified to accommodate the more applied nature of the HHE Program. Scoring Criteria for Relevance 5 = ctivities are in high-priority subject areas and NIOSH is significantly engaged in ap A propriate transfer activities for completed projects/reported results.
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The HHE Program provided links to the questionnaire on its Internet site, and the request for input was also announced through a variety of means including a NIOSH listserv for state health and labor departments that partner with NIOSH on occupational health surveillance; a listserv for occupational health practitioners run by the University of North Carolina; the American Industrial Hygiene Association weekly e-newsletter; and NIOSH eNews, a monthly newsletter (NIOSH eNews, 2008)
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impact on others in the occupational health community. A fifth section discusses the impact of program emergency response activities.
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