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Advancing Occupational Safety & Health Management System: High-performance Work Systems in Occupational Health Management


Monday, November 2, 2015

Arash Jalali, MPH PHI, MSHI, Health Policy and Administration (HPA), UIC School of Public Health (SPH-PI), Chicago, IL
Christopher Bell, MSHI, CAPM, CHTS-IM, Health Policy and Administration (HPA), UIC School of Public Health (SPH-PI), Chicago, IL
Douglas Rahden, BS, CPMA, Health Policy and Administration (HPA), UIC School of Public Health (SPH-PI), Chicago
Michael Cailas, PhD, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, UIC School of Public Health West (SPH-W), Chicago, IL
Edward Mensah, PhD, Public Health Informatics Graduate Program, University of Illinois - Chicago School of Public Health, Chicago, IL
The Smarter Public Health Prevention System (SPHPS) integrates Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Decision Support Systems (DSS) to visually display OSHA work-related injuries and illnesses, and provides health care providers with an insightful contextual analysis tool for collaborative decision making. In order to facilitate a healthy healthcare work force, it is important that healthcare organizations have the capability to respond to immediate health threats in real-time. This presentation introduces the audience to the Smarter Public Health Prevention System (SPHPS) that incorporates both a population centric view and patient centric view to form a cloud-knowledge discovery environment to drive knowledge based decisions in real-time. The SPHPS is based on the theory that the gravitational force between two objects, which are population health and patient-centered care, is workforce health protection or occupational health.

Learning Areas:

Occupational health and safety
Public health or related public policy
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Define purpose of Decision Support System (DSS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Define the importance of context awareness and location awareness analysis in DSS Describe the requirements of implementing a cloud-based GIS Describe the usage of smartphones and tablets for capturing context and location aware data Describe a geographic cluster analysis of OSHA Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses

Keyword(s): Occupational Health and Safety, Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the co-author of this work.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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