Module Components

• Overview
• Assignments

Topics

• Environmental Health Issues--Magnitude of the Problem and Prevention
• Population-based Initiatives to Reduce the Burden of Environmental Health Issues
• Occupational Health Issues--Magnitude of the Problem and Prevention
• Population-based Initiatives to Reduce the Burden of Occupational Health Issues
• Unintended Injuries and Violence—Magnitude of the Problem and Prevention
• Population-based Initiatives to Reduce the Burden of Unintended Injuries and Violence

NRSG 780 - Health Promotion and Population Health

Module 12: Environmental Health, Occupational Health, Unintended Injuries and Violence

Overview

The purpose of this module is to provide an overview of major issues in environmental health, occupational health, unintended injuries and violence. It highlights the magnitude of the problem, prevention strategies and population-based initiatives on the national and state level designed to reduce the burden of morbidity and mortality resulting from environmental and occupational risks and unintended injuries and violence.

Objectives

At the conclusion of this module, the learner will be able to:

• Explain the magnitude of the problem resulting from environmental risk factors
• Explain the magnitude of the problem resulting from occupational risk factors
• Explain the magnitude of the problem resulting from unintended injuries and violence
• Identify prevention strategies for addressing environmental risk factors
• Identify prevention strategies for addressing occupational risk factors
• Identify prevention strategies for addressing unintended injuries and violence
• Discuss national planning models for reducing environmental risk factors
• Discuss national planning models for reducing occupational risk factors
• Discuss national planning models for reducing unintended injuries and violence
• Review state initiatives for reducing environmental risk factors
• Review state initiatives for reducing occupational risk factors
• Review state initiatives for  reducing unintended injuries and violence

Required Readings

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). National Center for Environmental Health. Available at https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/information/about.htm
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). What is total worker health? (2020). Available at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/twh/default.html

• Evans, L. (2014). Traffic fatality reductions: United States compared with 25 other countries. American Journal of Public Health, 104(8), 1501-1507. Available at   https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263053131_Traffic_Fatality_Reductions_United_States_Compared_With_25_Other_Countries
• Evans, L. (2014). Twenty thousand more Americans killed annually because U.S. traffic safety policy rejects science, American Journal of Public Health, 104(8), 1349-1351. Available at    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4103206/

• Healthy People 2030. (2020). Environmental health. Available at https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/environmental-health

• Maryland Department of Health Preventing injuries in Maryland: A resource for state policy makers. Available at https://phpa.health.maryland.gov/OEHFP/Injury/Documents/MarylandResourceGuide2016HighRes.pdf
• CDC National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Available at https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/index.htm

Recommended Reading

• CDC Injury Center Research Center Research Priorities (2019) Available at https://www.cdc.gov/injury/pdfs/researchpriorities/cdc-injury-research-priorities.pdf
• Leigh, J.P., Markis, C.A., Iosif, A., & Romano. P. (2014). California’s nurse-to-patient ratio law and occupational injury. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. Available at https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00420-014-0977-y.pdf
• The importance of the optimal nurse-to-patient ratio Available at http://nursingeducation.lww.com/blog.entry.html/2016/11/10/the_importance_ofth-GCAE.html
• NORA Healthcare and Social Assistance Sector Council (NORA). (2022). National healthcare and social assistance agenda. Available at https://www.cdc.gov/nora/default.html

Directions

Read the module content and activities. Then complete the assignment for the module.