NIOSH Safety and Health Topic:Pesticide Illness & Injury Surveillance |
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NIOSHTIC-2 SearchNIOSHTIC-2 search results on Pesticide Illness & Injury Surveillance SENSOR-Pesticides ProgramThe mission of the Sentinel Event Notification System for Occupational Risk (SENSOR) program is to build and maintain occupational illness and injury surveillance capacity within state health departments. Under this program, NIOSH provides cooperative agreement funding and technical support to state health departments to conduct surveillance on one or more occupational illnesses or injuries. One of the illnesses supported under SENSOR is acute occupational pesticide-related illness and injury. Health departments in eight states (California, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Texas, and Washington) receive NIOSH funding and technical support to bolster pesticide-related illness and injury surveillance. Four additional states are unfunded SENSOR-Pesticides partners (Arizona, Florida, Iowa, and Louisiana). Funding support for the SENSOR-pesticides program is also provided by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). Besides tabulating the number of acute occupational pesticide-related cases, these SENSOR-supported surveillance systems perform in-depth investigations for case confirmation, and develop preventive interventions aimed at particular industries or pesticide hazards. The SENSOR-Pesticides program is most useful for timely identification of outbreaks and emerging pesticide problems. However, a national aggregated database is being created. It will consist of acute occupational pesticide-related illness and injury cases submitted annually by each of the SENSOR-pesticides states. This database will be useful to assess the magnitude and trend of acute occupational pesticide-related illness and injury. SENSOR-Pesticides Reports and PresentationsAnnual Report for 2000 PDF only 84 KB (16 pages) Tracking Acute Pesticide Toxicity (Slide presentation in Flash format; 388KB) SENSOR Case Definition and Severity IndexThe following documents were developed to guide state-based surveillance efforts and to promote comparability of data across states.
SPIDER Database SoftwareTo receive SPIDER, please contact Geoffrey Calvert <jac6@cdc.gov>. This software is useful for states to enter data on each individual with pesticide-related illness. It also will allow NIOSH to aggregate data across states. To our knowledge, this is the first software that is capable of collecting, managing, and reporting in a standardized fashion all pertinent information needed by NIOSH and US EPA to conduct surveillance on acute pesticide-related illness. By collecting information on the pesticide formulation, where it was used, and how it was applied, the circumstances responsible for poisoning events can be identified and this information can be used to design prevention strategies. The data dictionary of standardized variables used by the SENSOR-pesticides program and in SPIDER can be found at: Standardized Variables for Surveillance Database PDF only 148 KB (54 pages) MMWR ArticlesThe Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) is a CDC weekly scientific publication containing data and reports on specific health and safety topics. The following pesticide-related articles are available.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed JournalsCalvert GM, Mehler LN, Rosales R, Baum L, Thomsen C, Male D, Shafey O, Das R, Lackovic M, Arvizu E. Acute pesticide-related illnesses among working youths, 1988-1999. Am J Public Health 2003; 93:605-610. Brevard TA, Calvert GM, Blondell JM, Mehler LN. Acute occupational disinfectant-related illness among youth, 1993-1998. Environ Health Perspect 2003; 111:1654-1659. Calvert GM, Plate DK, Das R, Rosales R, Shafey O, Thomsen C, Male D, Beckman J, Arvizu E, Lackovic M. Acute occupational pesticide-related illness in the US, 1998-1999: surveillance findings from the SENSOR-pesticides program. Am J Ind Med 2004;45:14-23. State-Based Pesticide Poisoning Surveillance ProgramsArizona: Pesticide Poisoning Prevention Program California: Department of Pesticide Regulation California: Department of Health Services, Agricultural Health and Safety Section Florida: Pesticide Exposure Surveillance Program Iowa: Pesticide Exposure Surveillance Program Louisiana: Health-related Pesticide Incident Report Program Michigan Department of Community Health: Division of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology New York: Pesticide Poisoning Registry Oregon: Pesticide Poisoning Prevention Program Texas: Pesticide Exposure Surveillance Section in Texas (PEST) Washington: Pesticide Program Additional Information Related to Pesticide Poisoning SurveillanceGeneral Pesticide ResourcesPesticide Resource Management Guide - An EPA compendium of WWW electronic resources that can be searched by subject, title, source, or full text. Duke Occupational and Environmental Medicine - Links are provided to the National Library of Medicine to conduct literature searches, to Duke's OEM WWW Resource list, and to a moderated email list that is used by many health care and public health professionals to exchange information and pose questions related to practice. Pesticide Action Network Pesticide Database - Includes peer-reviewed scientific information culled from many sources on pesticide products and active ingredients. Recognition and Management of Pesticide PoisoningNational Pesticide Information Center (NPIC) - An EPA-funded resource that provides information on pesticide toxicology, environmental chemistry, product-specific information as well as recognition and management of pesticide poisoning. NPTN's website provides ready access to EXTOXNET, the Agriculture Extension Service's library of information on pesticide toxicology, and to public consumer oriented EPA publications. EPA Pesticide Poisoning Handbook American Association of Poison Control Centers - Contains an updated list of local and regional poison control centers. National Strategies for Health Care Providers: Pesticides Initiative Contact for Additional InformationTo obtain additional information on NIOSH-supported pesticide illness and injury surveillance activities, please contact Geoffrey Calvert, MD (jac6@cdc.gov). |
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