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4321.0: Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | ||||
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| As the size of the elderly population continues to expand, the provision of good quality in-home supportive services is essential to allowing the elderly to continue living independently. Consequently the size of the home health care workforce has more than doubled in the past decade and is projected to be one of the fastest growing occupations through 2014. According to the 2000 Census, homecare workers are 90% women, half minorities, and one quarter speak a language other than English at home. Homecare workers face numerous physical and psychosocial hazards such as high risks of injuries, exposure to blood born pathogens, heavy workloads, low wages, communication barriers with their consumers, and workplace violence. They work in less standardized, predictable, or controllable settings. Given the unique characteristics of the workers and workplace, health and safety research with homecare workers is particularly challenging and requires innovative approaches to research, interventions and public health policies. Over the past few years, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has funded several research projects to address home health care safety and health. These projects were aimed at assessing the role of workplace exposures on mental health, documenting and preventing exposures to blood-borne pathogens; and developing linguistically and culturally appropriate intervention materials and programs. This session will present the main findings and the lessons learned from several of these projects with particular emphasis on issues of the uniqueness of homecare workers, methodological challenges, and the political/policy implications of health and safety programs for home healthcare workers. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Identify the unique characteristics of home healthcare workers and the challenges of research on this population. Describe the main findings and lessens learned from several nationally and locally funded home healthcare projects. Discuss the political or policy implications of health and safety programs for home healthcare workers. | ||||
| Organizer(s): | Sherry L. Baron, MD MPH | |||
| Moderator(s): | Sherry L. Baron, MD MPH | |||
| 4:30 PM | Health and Safety for Home Healthcare Workers: Politics, Policy and Public Health for a Unique Worker Population Fang Gong, Sherry L. Baron, MD MPH | |||
| 4:35 PM |  | Partnership for Safety: A participatory research project with homecare workers and consumers Laura Stock, MPH, Sherry L. Baron, MD MPH, Fang Gong, Dan Habes, MSE, CPE, Linda Ayala, MPH, Diego Castaneda, MPH | ||
| 4:45 PM | | Barriers to Effective Health and Safety Risk Management Programs for the Home Healthcare Setting Robyn, M. Gershon, DrPH, Patricia W. Stone, PhD, MPH, Monika Pogorzelska, BA | ||
| 4:55 PM | | Health, work and policy in California's consumer-directed model of homecare Linda Delp, PhD, Carles Muntaner, MD, PhD | ||
| 5:05 PM | | Project SHARRP: Survey methods and recruitment of a population of home healthcare providers Pia K. Markkanen, ScD, Stephanie Chalupka, EdD, APRN, Catherine Galligan, MSc, Susan Sama, ScD, RN, Rebecca Gore, PhD, Hyun Kim, MS, Anila Bello, MS, David Kriebel, ScD, Margaret M. Quinn, ScD, CIH | ||
| 5:15 PM | | Sharps injuries among home healthcare workers affiliated with Massachusetts hospitals: Evidence from state based surveillance system, 2001-2004 Natalia Firsova, MA, Angela K. Laramie, MPH, Letitia Davis, ScD | ||
| 5:25 PM | | Preventing Blood Exposure in the Home Care Work Environment Jane Lipscomb, PhD, RN, Leslie A. Nickels, Kate McPhaul, PhD, MPH, RN, Rosemary K. Sokas, MD, MOH, MSc, Joseph Zanoni, MILR | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Occupational Health and Safety | |||
| Endorsed by: | Gerontological Health | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA