Welch L
Occupational Medicine Program, George Washington University, School of Medicine, Washington, DC.
Am J Public Health. 1989 Dec;79 Suppl(Suppl):58-60. doi: 10.2105/ajph.79.suppl.58.
Academic occupational health centers can support state-based occupational disease surveillance by playing a role in case identification and management, physician education, workplace investigation, and surveillance case criteria development. The existing centers can also serve as models for developing new clinics. As plans for developing surveillance continue, the role of these centers should be explicitly defined, and they should be included in helping to develop mechanisms for reporting. In all these ways, the centers can significantly enhance the development of a national surveillance system for occupational disease.
学术性职业健康中心可通过在病例识别与管理、医生教育、工作场所调查以及监测病例标准制定等方面发挥作用，来支持基于州的职业病监测。现有的中心还可作为新建诊所的典范。随着监测发展计划的持续推进，应明确这些中心的作用，并让它们参与到协助建立报告机制的工作中。通过所有这些方式，这些中心能够显著促进国家职业病监测系统的发展。
