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Assessment
The EC will provide a qualitative assessment that discusses the quality, ad-
equacy, and use of inputs.
III.B.5. Review of Activities
(Box C in Figure 2)
Activities are defined as the efforts and work of the program, its staff, and its
grantees and contractors. For purposes of the present evaluation, activities of the
NIOSH program under review should be divided into research and transfer activi-
ties. Research activities may be further categorized as surveillance, health-effects
research, intervention research, health-services research, and other research (see
sample classification of research activities in Table 2). Transfer activities include
information dissemination, training, technical assistance, and education designed
to translate research outputs into content and formats designed for application in
the workplace to produce improvements in occupational safety and health. De-
pending on the scope of the program under review, activities may also be grouped
by research program objectives or subprograms.
Conventional occupational-health research focuses appropriately on health
effects and technology. A focus on socioeconomic and policy research and on
surveillance and diffusion research is also needed to effect change because not all
relevant intermediate outcomes occur in the workplace. There are important out-
comes farther out on the causal chain that NIOSH can affect and thereby influence
health and safety in the workplace. Some examples of types of research that might
also prove important in addressing NIOSH's mission are
Socioeconomic research on cost shifting between worker compensa-
tion and private insurance.
Surveillance research to assess the degree of significant and systematic
underreporting of select injuries and illnesses on OSHA logs.
Research on methods to build health and safety capacity in com-
munity health centers that serve low-income and/or minority-group
workers, and to improve recognition and treatment of work-related
conditions.
Transfer research to change health and safety knowledge in teenagers
while they are in high school to improve the likelihood of reduced
injuries when they enter the workforce.
Community-based participatory research on differences between re-
cently arrived immigrants and US-born workers regarding perceptions
of acceptable health and safety risks to target programs to meet the
workforce training needs of immigrant workers.
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