Total Worker Health and work-life stress

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• Personal Author:
  Hammer LB ; Sauter S
• Description:
  OBJECTIVE: Review relationships between work-life stress and health behaviors to advance understanding of pathways between occupational and individual risk factors and health and safety outcomes. METHODS: A background on the Total Worker Health concept is provided, and a review of research on the relationship between work-life stress and health behaviors is presented. RESULTS: Research evidence indicates that work-life stress serves as a negative occupational exposure relating to poor health behaviors, including smoking, poor food choices, low levels of exercise, and even decreased sleep time. CONCLUSION: The association between work-life stress and adverse health behaviors suggests that interventions at both the occupational (health protection) and individual (health promotion) level may be helpful in mitigating effects of work-life stress, consistent with the Total Worker Health approach. Further study is needed to investigate gains from an integrated prevention strategy. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Health Promotion Mental Health Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Stress, Psychological Workplace
• Keywords:
  Emotional-stress Health-programs Health-protection Job-stress Mental-stress Occupational-exposure Physical-stress Physiological-stress Psychological-stress Risk-factors Safety-practices Stress Total-Worker-Health Work-environment Worker-health

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• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; Ohio ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  55
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043449
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2013 Dec; 55(Suppl 12S):S25-S29
• Contact Point Address:
  Leslie B. Hammer, PhD, Department of Psychology, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201
• Email:
  hammerl@pdx.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction ; Healthcare and Social Assistance
• Performing Organization:
  Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20110901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• Supplement:
  12S
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:062889cc3bd164c839c4767802ff55bd15228ed95887ef8310386130824ea38d14e99f9fae9a62382e300883acca33faa0e0094b655f816f857122fbd4a88548
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195340/cdc_195340_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 95.44 KB ]