Research frontiers in Total Worker Health: unique perspectives from the NIOSH Centers of Excellence to Promote a Healthier Workforce.

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• Personal Author:
  Anger WK ; Cherniack, Martin G. ; Merchant, James A. ; Sorensen G
• Description:
  The four NIOSH-funded Centers of Excellence to Promote a Healthier Workforce are unified in the mission to create new knowledge that informs both practice and science on the integration of health protection and health promotion. Each Center employs a unique approach, including multiple research and outreach and translational projects in various sectors - large and small workplaces, public and private, urban and rural. The Centers are addressing critical gaps in the evidence base supporting TWH. This plenary session will feature a panel of four brief presentations, one from each Center of Excellence, providing a description of their fundamental approaches to Total Worker Health and exemplars from their research, followed by discussion with the audience to identify new research directions and challenges. Attendees will learn: A range of approaches to integrated health and safety used across the Centers of Excellence; Measures being used in the Centers, including relationships observed among worker health outcomes, the work organization and environment, employment productivity measures and cost implications; The importance of these results for TWH approaches to intervention and research to practice, as well as employee participation, program priority-setting and design.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Asbestos Dust Environmental Monitoring Inorganic Chemicals Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Preceptorship Safety Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Health Promotion Intervention Occupational Health Programs Occupational Health Services Occupational Safety And Health Total Worker Health TWH Worker Health
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Abstract
• Place as Subject:
  Iowa ; Massachusetts ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  12-13
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20053902
• Citation:
  1st International Symposium to Advance Total Worker Health(TM), October 6-8, 2014, Bethesda, Maryland. Atlanta, GA: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), 2014 Oct; :12-13
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction ; Healthcare and Social Assistance
• Performing Organization:
  Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20110901
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181742/cdc_181742_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 290.68 KB ]