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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, then April 2005 and these data are from the 2011 version.
Of the 2504 direct subscribers to the list, 607 subscribers participated in this survey, a 24% response rate.
1.
Profession
| Physicians | Nurse |
Indust. Hygienist or Safety Professional |
Researcher or Epidemiologist |
Health Educator |
Physician-Assistant
or Nurse Practitioner |
 |
| 53% | 16% | 9% | 6% | 2% | 5% | |
| Responses
from the "other"
category consist of: Administrator x 10, APN, Attorney at Law, Consultant x 4, Continuing Education Coordinator, Developmental Disabilities Specialist, Disability Manager, Grant Portfolio Manager, Health And Safety Outreach And Education, Radiology Provider, HVAC Technician, Legal Nurse Consultant, Librarian x 4, Member Of Environmental Non-Profit , Occupational Infection Preventionist, Oh Client Services & Relations Admin., Physical Therapist, Professor And Researcher, Public Health, Publisher, Quality Manager, Retired Physician, Science Policy Expert x 2, Software Developer, State-Based Occupational Health & Safety Surveillance -Public Health Gov, Technical Officer – Public Health And Environment (Nurse-Epi), Toxicologist x 3, Veterinarian x 2, Writer x 2 |
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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% | < 25% |  |
| Porportion of Respondents | 56% | 18% | 11% | 5% | 10% |
3.
Affiliation
| Academic | Private practice | Hospital | Corporate / Employer | Government | Other |  |
| 17% | 15% | 22% | 15% | 17% |
13% |
4.
Continent
| Africa | Asia | Australia | Europe | N.America | Central
or South America |
Other |
|
| 1% | 3% | 2% | 5% | 87% | 1% | 1% |
5.
Country of residence
Based
on survey replies ("Where are you headquartered or work actively?") combined
with information
from subscribers’ email addresses.
This
list shows
119(!)countries listed as Occ-Env-Med-L participants.
|
Albania |
Croatia Croatia/Hrvatska Cuba Czech Republic Denmark Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Finland France Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guadeloupe Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica |
Japan Korea Kosovo Latvia Lebanon Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malaysia Malta Mauritius Mexico Moldova Montenegro Morocco Namibia Netherlands New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Nigeria Niue Norway Pakistan Panama Peru Poland Portugal Puerto Rico |
Romania Russia Russian Federation Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Suriname Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand The Netherlands Trinidad and Tobago Turkey UK Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Venezuela Virgin Islands (US) Zambia |
6. Membership in National Associations
AOEC (Association of Occupational & Environmental
Clinics) 11%
of survey respondents
ACOEM (American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine) 41%
of survey respondents
AAOHN (American Association of Occupational Health Nurses) 15%
of survey respondents
AIHA (American Industrial Hygiene Association) 7%
of survey respondents
ACGIH (Amer. Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists) 6% of survey respondents
APHA (American Public Health Association) 14% of survey respondents
ICOH (International Commission on Occupational Health) 7% of survey respondents
7.
Approximately what percent of the messages do you open?
| ALL | 75 – 99% | 50 – 74% | 25 – 49% | 0 – 24% |
| 17% | 38% | 22% | 13% | 8% |
8. How often do you access your messages from OEM-L ?
| Daily | Weekly or more | Up to Monthly | Less than Monthly |
| 67% | 29% | 2% | 2% |
9. To HOW MANY non-subscribers colleagues (in any field) do you frequently
send OEM-L material
(more
often than about every 2 weeks)?
| No others | Send to
1-5 Non-subscribers |
Send to
6-10 Non-subscribers |
Send to
more than 10 Non-subscribers |
| 38% | 57% | 3% | 1% |
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?
| Only to questioner | Broadcast 25 – 50% | Broadcast 50 – 75% | Broadcast 75 – 90% | Broadcast more than 90% |
|
| 23% | 5% | 3% | 4% | 9% | 35% |
11. How useful is the Occ-Env-Med-List in obtaining information about each topic or function of environmental and occupational issues?
| Discipline
/ Task (among those with
each responsibility) |
Not Useful | Only Infrequently | Occasionally | Often | Very Frequently |
|
| Clinical | 1% | 7% | 23% | 34% | 23% | |
| Preventive | 0% | 9% | 28% | 33% | 27% | |
| Diagnostic | 1% | 7% | 30% | 31% | 19% | |
| Educational | 1% | 9% | 27% | 34% | 25% | |
| Administrative | 4% | 21% | 33% | 19% | 10% | |
| Research | 2% | 16% | 28% | 29% | 20% |
12.
How many messages have you posted to the Occ-Env-Med-L
forum in the last 3 months?
| None | One | Two | Three | More |
| 81% | 9% | 4% | 1% | 0% |
13. What did you gain from the replies you received? (Proportion of those who asked a question)
|
Not useful |
Only infrequently |
Occasionally Useful | Often Useful | Very Frequently Useful | |
|
Questions or cases satisfactorily answered |
3% |
8% |
16% |
40% |
34% |
|
Increased my knowledge about Occup. & Environ. Med./Health |
2% |
3% |
16% |
39% |
41% |
|
Achieved support leading to action |
4% |
10% |
24% |
37% |
26% |
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 |
| 8% | 6% | 85% |
15. Do you think that the focus for the Occ-Env-Med-List topics and participation should be changed?
|
Narrower |
Broader |
No change |
| 10% | 8% | 83% |
16.The emphasis for moderator’s message content should be?
| 5
More Medical / Scientific |
4 |
3
Same |
2 |
1
More Administrative / Regulatory |
| 9% | 18% | 66% | 5% | 2% |
| 5 More Scientific / Clinical |
4 |
3 Same |
2 |
1 More Lay / Popular Press |
| 7% | 17% | 73% | 3% | 0% |
| 5 More Occupational |
|
Same |
2 |
1 More Environmental |
| 6% | 13% | 74% | 4% | 3% |
| 5
More Diagnosis / Therapy |
4 |
Same |
2 |
1
More Prevention |
| 3% | 8% | 74% | 12% | 4% |
17.The most useful functions provided by the list:
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