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This information was created by a web-based survey, and promoted entirely through e-mail to the OEM-L readership. It was sent first during April, 1997, then Nov, 2002, and these data are from the April 2005 version..
Of the 3,450 subscribers to the list, 760 subscribers participated in this survey, a 22% response rate.
1.
Profession
| Physicians | Nurse | Industrial Hygienist | Researcher | Physician-Assistant
or Nurse Practitioner |
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| 49% | 11% | 10% | 6% | 5% | |
| Responses
from the "other"
category consist of: Administrator
;
Advocate for the disabled ; Associate Professor, Toxicologist, Chemical
Hygiene Officer, RO ; Attorney-IH ; Biosafety Officer ; Building
investigator ; Chemist, EHS Consultant ; Childhood Lead Program staff ;
Chiropractor ; Clinic-Program Director ; Construction Safety
Professional ; Consultant ; Director of OH services ( Admin) ;
Editor/writer ; Education ; EHS Manager ; EHS Specialist ; Emer
Response Planner for PH Laboratory ; Env. health and safety specialist
; Environment, Health & Safety ; Environmental health and risk
management ; Environmental health scientist ; Environmental Health
Specialist, Safety Officer ; EOH policy ; Epidemiologist ;
Epidemiologist/univ faculty ; Forensic toxicologist ; Health
Administration ; Health Physicist ; Health promotion program manager ;
Home hospice care giver ; Infection Control ; Information specialist ;
Insurance Broker ; Lab Sales ; Legal Nurse Consultant ; Librarian ;
Management, Mgd care company ; Mechanical Engineer ; Medical librarian
; Medical writer ; Naturopath ; Non-profit administrator ; Nurse
Administrator ; Occ Health & Safety Director ; Occup Med
Coordinator ; Occupational Therapist ; Occupational toxicologist ;
Optometrist ; Pharmacist ; Physician-scientist ; Professor ; Program
manager ; Public Health ; Refrigeration Mechanic ; Retired ; Risk
consultiing ; RSO ; Safety Educator ; Safety Specialist ; Scientist ;
SHE Adviser ; SPH Professor ; Stagehand ; Technical Writer-Editor ;
Testing Service ; Therapist & Administrator ; Tox/Epi ;
Toxicologist ; Toxicologist/Env.Epid. ; Toxicology consultant ; Union
H&S rep ; Veterinarian ; Writer
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2.
What percentage of your professional time is spent in Occupational
&
Environmental Medicine?
| Percent of Professional Time | ALL | 75% – 100% | 50%
– 75% |
25%
– 50% |
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| Porportion of Respondents | 57% | 20% | 10% | 5% | 9% |
3.
Affiliation
| Academic | Private practice | Labor Union | Corporate / Management | Government | Other |
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| 17% | 34% | 1% | 11% | 21% | 15% |
4.
Continent
| Africa | Asia | Australia | Europe | N.America | Central
or South America |
Other |
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| 0% | 2% | 2% | 6% | 88% | 1% | 1% |
5.
Country of residence
Based
on survey replies ("Where are you headquartered?") combined
with information
from subscribers’ email addresses
This
list shows 75
countries currently participating with Occ-Env-Med-L.
| Argentina Australia Austria Bahrain Belgium Botswana Brazil Brunei Cameroon Canada Chad Chile China Colombia Costa Rica Denmark Ecuador Egypt Ethiopia |
Finland Germany Ghana Greece Guinea Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast Japan Jordan Kenya Kuwait |
Lebanon Macedonia Malaysia Mauritius Mexico Moldova Mozambique Namibia Netherlands New Caledonia New Zealand Niue Norway Peru Poland Portugal Romania Russia |
Senegal South Korea Saudi Arabia South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tanzania Thailand Turkey Uganda United Kingdom United States United Arab Emirates Uruguay Venezuela Zaire Zimbabwe |
6. Membership in AOEC (Association of Occupational & Environmental Clinics)
11%
of survey respondents
7.
Approximately what percent of the messages do you open?
|
Percent of
messages opened
|
ALL | 75 – 100% | 50 – 75% | 25 – 50% | 0 – 25% |
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| Proportion of respondents | 18% | 32% | 25% | 18% | 8% |
8.
How often do you access your messages from OEM-L ?
|
Frequency
Accessed
|
Daily | Twice Weekly | Weekly | Less than Weekly |
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| Proportion of respondents | 82% | 11% | 3% | 4% |
9.
To HOW MANY non-subscribers colleagues (in any field) do you frequently
send OEM-L material
(more
often than about every 2 weeks)?
| Send to fewer than 2
Non-subscribers |
Send to
2-4 Non-subscribers |
Send to
5 – 7 Non-subscribers |
Send to
more than 7 Non-subscribers |
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| 57% | 29% | 8% | 7% |
10.
When you choose to reply to messages sent via OEM-L,
how often do
you choose to send your
messages
directly to the questioner rather than broadcast to the list-as-a-whole?
| Broadcast <10% | Broadcast up to 1/3 | Broadcast up to 2/3 | Broadcast more than 2/3 | Broadcast more than 90% |
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| 33% | 6% | 14% | 15% | 32% |
11.
How often do you make practical use of the information from Occ-Env-Med-L?
| Discipline
/ Task (among those with
each responsibility) |
Never | Rarely | Several times a year |
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| a) Clinical | 13% | 15% | 54% | 32% | |
| b) Preventive | 6% | 24% | 57% | 14% | |
| c) Administrative | 14% | 33% | 44% | 9% | |
| d) Research | 22% | 33% | 35% | 10% |
12.
How many messages have you posted to the Occ-Env-Med-L
forum in the last 3 months?
| None | One to Two | Three to Four | Five to Six | More |
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| 70% | 23% | 3% | 2% | 2% |
13.
If you posted a question to the maillist, were the replies you received
useful?
| No, I didn’t find anything useful in the responses I recieved. | Yes, but not as much as I hoped and needed to get. | Yes, I learned what I needed to. |
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| 8% | 26% | 66% |
14.
Do you think that the overall frequency of "moderator’s announcement"
messages
(with
quoted elements from news reports or press releases) should be:
| More frequent | Less frequent | About the same |
| 12% | 5% | 82% |
15.
The emphasis for message content should be?
| 5
More Medical / Scientific |
4 |
3
Same |
2 |
1
More Administrative / Regulatory |
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| 9% | 18% | 66% | 5% | 2% | |
| 5 More Medical / Scientific |
4 |
3 Same |
2 |
1 More Lay / Popular Press |
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| 11% | 27% | 58% | 3% | 1% | |
| 5 More Occupational |
|
Same |
2 |
1 More Environmental |
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| 14% | 19% | 57% | 6% | 4% | |
| 5
More Diagnosis / Therapy |
4 |
Same |
2 |
1
More Prevention |
|
| 5% | 11% | 62% | 15% | 7% | |
16. The most useful functions provided by the list:
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