Healthy People 2000 Citizens Chart the Course (1990) / Chapter Skim
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17 Occupational Safety and Health
17 Occupational Safety and Health
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However, many testifiers recognize that these groups can be only as effective as their funding allows. A Detroit Department of Health spokesperson identifies several trends that will have some impact on the year 2000 objectives, Including continued cigarette smoking, which greatly magnifies the effects of toxic agents; excessive government regulatory programs that have led to an inhibition of new technologies for hazardous waste treatment; more women in the workplace, which has led to the emerging importance of possible mutagens and teratogens; and illegal dumping of toxic wastes, which has led to an increase in the probability of contact with toxic agents.
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Paul Monahan of the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic in Washington State recommends the identification and elimination of legislative and regulatory policies that discriminate against farm workers. Exclusionary features of many laws and regulations, he says, "have an adverse impact on the health of farm workers." For example, some 20 states provide no protection for farm workers under their workers' compensation laws, and another 15 states 142 Healthy People 2000: Citizens Chart the Course protect only restricted categories of temporary workers.
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People frequently view the felon as the greatest threat to the law enforcement officer's health and safety, when he or she actually is much more likely to die from heart disease, stroke, automobile accident, cancer, or suicide," he says. Law enforcement officers are widely perceived as heavier users of tobacco than many other professionals, and Toler calls for research to determine the accuracy of this perception and to identify approaches that would reduce such use.
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(~215) 144 Healthy People 2000: Citizens Chart the Course Injury Control Jeanette Winfree, representing the American Physical Therapy Association, suggests that ergonomically designed jobs can prevent injuries.
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(~448J Jill F-loberg of Olympia Physical Therapy Service is less certain about the economic value of worksite prevention programs. Although there are some data available, follow-up studies of in-house programs are as yet inconclusive in showing long-term decreases in healthrelated time loss and injury costs." (#317J Pat Joseph, a representative of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, says that the degree of voluntary participation in workplace health promotion programs is often higher than in similar community-based programs.
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Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 1987 TESTIFIERS CITED IN CHAPTER 17 071 Givens, Austin; American Occupational Medical Association 108 Jarrett, Michael; South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control 183 Richards, Rebecca; North Woods Health Careers Consortium (Wausau, Wisconsin) 146 Healthy People 2000: Citizens Chart the Course
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337 Sugarman, Jute; Washington State Department of Social and Health Services 345 Kenney, Lawrence; Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO 382 Marine, William; University of Colorado Health Sciences Center 385 Joseph, Pat; United States Air Force, Lowly Air Force Base, Denver 392 Levine, Steven; University of Michigan 448 Warshaw, Leon; New York Business Group on Health 450 Johnson, Dorothea; AT&T 540 Pratt, David; MaIy Imogene Bassett Hospital (Cooperstown, New York) 558 Babbitz, Matilda; American Association of Occupational Health Nurses 569 Ellis, Mary; Iowa Department of Public Health 574 Smith, Marie; American Society of Hospital Pharmacists 586 Fosco, Angelo; Laborers' International Union of North America 591 Kizer, Kenneth; California Department of Health Services 617 Berlin, Joan and Taras, Ana; American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, and Stellman, Jeanne; Columbia University 625 Goldstein, Bernard; University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 638 Singer, Raymond; Mount Sinai School of Medicine 710 Stout, Chuck; Colorado Department of Health 783 Collins, Harvey; California Department of Health Services Occupational Safety and Health 147
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