This article is part of a supplement entitled Building Thriving Communities Through Comprehensive Community Health Initiatives, which is sponsored by Kaiser Permanente, Community Health.

This study suggests that occupational health issues are frequent in episodic care settings and that the definition of occupational health issues should be broadened to include "made worse" and "illness makes work difficult" as well as the traditional workplace causation definition. Further, episodic care settings present unique opportunities for prevention.