Keeping Workers Healthy

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Keeping Workers Healthy

• GeoLibrary Increasing Access to Training
  Materials and Practice Tools for Primary Care
  Practitioners

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Leslie Nickels, MEd Director Continuing Education
and Outreach Illinois Education and Research
Center University of Illinois at Chicago School
of Public Health Chicago, Il USA
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Illinois Education and Research Center
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Objectives

• Discuss global resources for building capacity
  through education, training and technical
  materials
• Describe structure and use of the Global
  Environmental and Occupational Health Library,
  GeoLibrary, data base of teaching materials and
  practice tools in occupational health,
  environmental health and road safety

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Topics covered

• Global Plan of Action capacity building
• WHO Network of Collaborating Centers in
  Occupational Health
• Network of CC workplan education and training
  projects (GPA 3)
• Finding education and training resources and
  practice tools (GeoLibrary)

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Extent of the problem in occupational safety and
health globally

• According to the latest WHO and ILO estimates
  for the year 2000 there are 2.0 million
  work-related deaths per year. WHO estimates that
  there are only 10-15 of workers who have access
  to a basic standard of occupational health
  services.

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Capacity to address occupational health problems
globally
WHO regional offices
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Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
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Global Work Plan 2009-2012

• The network of Collaborating Centres makes a
  substantial contribution to our goal of
  occupational health for all they are the
  "on-the-ground" actors, with capacities and
  networks in developed and developing countries,
  and play a key role in capacity building. WHO
  estimates that only about 10 to 15 of workers
  worldwide have some kind of access to
  occupational health services, and extending
  coverage is a key challenge. http//www.who.int/o
  ccupational_health/network/en/

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WHO Primary Care and Basic Occupational Health
Services GPA 3 Priority

• Adapt and disseminate curricula, training
  materials and training for international capacity
  building in OH
• Output Model materials and courses for BOHS,
  inventory, technical support for delivery of
  international courses and on-line training,
  national training programmes in low- and
  medium-income countries, introduction of OH into
  professional education

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Increasing Knowledge and Skills to Prevent Worker
Injury, Illness and Death

• Curriculum development and enhancement of faculty
  skills in creating distance based courses
• E-training in occupational risk prevention
• Seminars on usage of personal protective
  equipment for health care workers
• Netbased training of work related medicine
• Introduction to occupational health
• Occupational diseases

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GeoLibrary

• Steering Committee
• Sponsors
• Translators and reviewers
• Contributors
• Many UIC faculty and students who worked on this
  project

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Features

• Six languages
• Search capabilities
• Annotated
• Variety of formats (web-cast, slide show, course
  and materials, etc.)
• Ability to suggest materials

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Home Page
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Development
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Occupational Home Page
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Site in Arabic
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French
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Document Type
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Road Safety at WorkSpecialty Library
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Occupational Site Index
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Occupational Site Index
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Occupational Site Index
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Browsing by Index
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Browsing by Index
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Advanced Search
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Advanced Search
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Advanced Search
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Search Results
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Description of Materials
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Retrieving Materials
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Suggest Materials
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Contact Us
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Contributing Editor
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Filling Out a Library Card
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Use of the GeoLibrary

• The GeoLibrary currently contains over 1200
  different occupational health and almost 200
  road safety training materials and practice
  tools.
• Materials are available in many forms some of
  which include complete courses, webcasts,
  tutorials/modules, factsheets, databases, and
  sample/ model programs and guidelines.

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Next Steps

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