Health and Safety Priorities for the 21st Century

This event took place on May 26-27, 2004.

Purpose

To promote dissemination of research on the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) priorities, including: traumatic injury (unintentional and intentional); occupational health services research; exposure assessment; musculoskeletal disease syndromes; organization of work.

Video

To watch the streaming video, your computer needs:

• Internet connection with a 56K modem or faster.
• Sound card with speakers so you can hear the audio portion of the course.
• Real Player Software – if it isn’t installed on your computer, download it for free at http://real.com.

NORA at Nine: Looking Back and Looking Forward (Keynote)

• Marilyn Fingerhut, PhD, NIOSH International Coordinator and NORA Coordinator, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health,Washington, DC

Priorities for Occupational Injury Surveillance in the 21st Century: The Need to Improve Information for Non-Fatal Injuries

• Gordon S. Smith, MD, MPH, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Safety Research, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts

Economic Incentives for Health Behavior Change

• Nico Pronk, PhD, Vice President, Center for Health Promotion, HealthPartners, and Research Investigator and Co-Director, Population Health Unit, HealthPartners Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Discussant: Sheryl Niebuhr, PhD, Manager, 3M Total Health & Productivity Services
• Discussant: Bryan Dowd, PhD, Professor, Health Services Research and Policy, and Co-Director, Occupational Health Services Research and Policy Program, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Musculoskeletal Disorders: Interventions, Outcomes and Proposals: Welcome to ‘Reality Science’

• Benjamin C. Amick III, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, Texas; Co-Chair, Health Services Research Team, NORA, NIOSH, Atlanta, Georgia
• Discussant: William H. Lohman, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota School of Public Health; Medical Consultant – Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry
• Discussant: Peter Benner, Executive Director, AFSCME Council 6 – AFL-CIO, Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Clinical and Occupational Correlates of Work Productivity Loss Among Employed Patients with Depression

• Debra Lerner, PhD, MS, Director, The Health Institute’s Program on Health, Work and Disability, Tufts-New England Medical Center; Associate Professor of Medicine, Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts