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EDITORIAL
Occupational health
Identification of research priorities in occupational health
1 ISPESL National Institute for Occupational Safety and Prevention, Rome, Italy
2 NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Washington, DC, USA
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr S Iavicoli
ISPESL, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Prevention, Via Fontana Candida, 1, 00040 Monteporzio Catone, Rome, Italy; seriav@iol.it
A discussion of national priority setting systems
Keywords: consensus; Delphi technique; research priorities
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In recent decades far-reaching national efforts to set priorities for research in the sector of occupational safety and health (OSH) have led to redefinitions and shifts in national policies and priorities, with wide-scale involvement of all concerned—public and social bodies, occupational health and safety experts, companies, trade unions, public and private insurance agencies. The benefit of establishing national priorities in the OSH sector is clear from the success of several national stakeholder efforts to focus research and funding in key topical areas of occupational health, based on judgements that indicate the likelihood of addressing serious occupational health and safety problems. Here we describe the methods, results, and impact of national priority setting systems created by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in the USA, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Prevention (ISPESL) in Italy, the British Occupational Health Research Foundation (BOHRF) in the United
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