Boedeker Wolfgang, Kreis Julia
BKK Bundesverband, Federal Association of Company Health Insurance Funds, Health Department, Essen, Germany.
Eur J Public Health. 2003 Sep;13(3 Suppl):91-4.
In contrast to the enormous importance of work to the life of humans and societies, the working environment has so far played only a minor role in health monitoring. However, increasingly it is realized that work has a strong public health impact and therefore is also a cost factor to modern societies. The aim of the project WORKHEALTH, which is currently being carried out under the EU health monitoring programme, is the establishment of indicators for work-related health monitoring in Europe from a public health perspective.
The work will be carried out by means of three work packages: a synopsis of existing work-related indicator sets together with the identification of areas still to be developed, resulting specification of new indicators for work-related health monitoring, and the development of operational definitions for these indicators. The project includes strong links to the fields of occupational health and safety, public health, social insurance and labour inspectorates to include demands from, as well as to disseminate results to, these different institutions also involved in aspects of work-related health monitoring.
Expected results will be indicators for work-related health monitoring that have been developed jointly with the participation of all Member States and different stakeholders within this field, and which permit comparable and reliable data at a national as well as European level.
与工作对人类和社会生活的巨大重要性形成对比的是，迄今为止，工作环境在健康监测中仅发挥了次要作用。然而，人们越来越认识到工作对公众健康有重大影响，因此也是现代社会的一个成本因素。目前正在欧盟健康监测计划下开展的“工作健康”项目的目标是，从公共卫生角度建立欧洲与工作相关的健康监测指标。
这项工作将通过三个工作包来开展：对现有与工作相关的指标集进行概述，同时确定仍需开发的领域，从而确定与工作相关的健康监测新指标，并为这些指标制定操作定义。该项目与职业健康与安全、公共卫生、社会保险和劳动监察等领域建立了紧密联系，以便纳入这些同样参与与工作相关健康监测工作的不同机构的要求，并向它们传播成果。
预期成果将是与工作相关的健康监测指标，这些指标是在所有成员国和该领域不同利益相关者的共同参与下制定的，并且在国家和欧洲层面都能提供可比且可靠的数据。
