title: Examining national trends in worker health with the National Health Interview Survey.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), both the annual core survey and periodic occupational health supplements (OHSs), available for examining national trends in worker health.
  
  
  METHODS
  The NHIS is an annual in-person household survey with a cross-sectional multistage clustered sample design to produce nationally representative health data. The 2010 NHIS included an OHS.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Prevalence rates of various health conditions and health behaviors among workers based on multiple years of NHIS core data are available. In addition, the 2010 NHIS-OHS data provide prevalence rates of selected health conditions, work organization factors, and occupational exposures among US workers by industry and occupation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The publicly available NHIS data can be used to identify areas of concern for various industries and for benchmarking data from specific worker groups against national averages.
authors.affiliation: From the Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio.
authors.forename: Sara E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Luckhaupt
authors.forename: John P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Sestito
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D006304:Health Status; D006306:Health Surveys / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000639:trends*; D015995:Prevalence; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D064450:Workplace Violence