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Health Surveillance can be
defined in various ways. Classically it has been understood to comprise
those strategies and methods to detect and assess systematically the adverse
effects of work on the health of workers. It has however also been used to
include systematic assessments of fitness for work, and/or of health status
that is not directly related to occupation.
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Purposes of Health
Surveillance
- Protection of health of the
individual employee
- Detection at an early stage
any adverse health effects
- Assisting in the evaluation
of control measures
- Data may be used for
detection of hazards and assessment of risk
- Other purposes: e.g. immune
status assessment
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Criteria for
conducting Health Surveillance
- There is an identifiable
disease or other identifiable adverse health outcome
- The disease or health effect
may be related to exposure
- There is a likelihood that
the disease or health effect may occur
- There are valid techniques
for detecting indications of the disease or health effects
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