Effectiveness of total worker health interventions

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• Personal Author:
  Anger WK ; Bodner T ; Elliot DL ; Hammer LB ; Kuehl KS ; Montgomery D ; Olson, Ryan ; Rohlman DS ; Truxillo DM
• Description:
  Total Worker Health (TWH) was introduced and the term was trademarked in 2011 by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to formally signal the expansion of traditional occupational safety and health (OSH) to include wellness and well-being. We searched PubMed, PsycINFO, and other databases using keywords TWH, health promotion, health protection, and variants for articles meeting the criteria of (a) employing both occupational safety and/or health (OSH, or health protection) and wellness and/or well-being (health promotion, or HP) in the same intervention study, and (b) reporting both OSH and HP outcomes. Only 17 published studies met these criteria. All but 1 of the 17 TWH interventions improved risk factors for injuries and/or chronic illnesses, and 4 improved 10 or more risk factors. Several TWH interventions reported sustained improvements for over a year, although only 1 is readily available for dissemination. These results suggest that TWH interventions that address both injuries and chronic diseases can improve workforce health effectively and more rapidly than the alternative of separately employing more narrowly focused programs to change the same outcomes in serial fashion. These 17 articles provide useful examples of how TWH interventions can be structured. The promise of simultaneous improvements in safety, health, and well-being leads to the call to pursue TWH research to identify and disseminate best practices. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Promotion Men Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management Women Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: TWH Health-programs Health-protection Health Promotion Health Protection Humans Injuries Injury-prevention Intervention Models Preventive-medicine Risk-factors Safety Safety-programs Total-Worker-Health Total Worker Health Wellness Work-environment Workers

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• ISSN:
  1076-8998
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement ; Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  226-247
• Volume:
  20
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047278
• Citation:
  J Occup Health Psychol 2015 Apr; 20(2):226-247
• Contact Point Address:
  W. Kent Anger, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, L606, Portland, OR 97239
• Email:
  anger@ohsu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Manufacturing ; Public Safety ; Healthcare and Social Assistance ; Construction
• Performing Organization:
  Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20110901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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