Occupational health surveillance as a public health informatics problem.

Worker health risks can remain undercounted when reporting is weak.

The proposal frames occupational health surveillance as a problem of missed signals, inconsistent capture, and limited feedback loops between workplace exposure, health outcomes, and system response.

The study direction combines epidemiology and informatics.

• Define target populations, occupational exposures, and reportable health outcomes.
• Identify existing data capture points and reporting gaps.
• Propose a practical surveillance architecture for tracking, analysis, and feedback.
• Position the work around prevention, early detection, and policy relevance.

The proposal supports public health and scholarship positioning.

It demonstrates the ability to move from a broad health systems problem to a focused research frame with operational variables, data flows, and a plausible implementation context.