WHEC Seminar: Evaluating interventions in work-related ill health and disease. October 2022

The prevention of disease and ill health caused by adverse factors at work will often require interventions to reduce the level of exposure to harm.

Evaluating the effectiveness of interventions is essential to enable confidence that they have had the desired effect, to understand any benefits gained and whether they have caused any unintended harm.

Interventions and their evaluation are more straightforward where a single agent (e.g. asbestos) is responsible for one or more clearly defined outcomes (e.g. mesothelioma or lung cancer), but are more complex in circumstances where ill health is the outcome of multiple possible environmental factors in and outside work.

This seminar outlines intervention principles to address such complexity and the research that underpins it.

Read the full evidence review paper:
https://www.hse.gov.uk/research/asset...