NIOSH response to the NIH Pathways to Prevention Workshop recommendations

Details

• Personal Author:
  Chang C-C ; Chosewood, L. Casey ; Howard J ; Schill, Anita L.
• Description:
  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) appreciates the recommendations of the independent panel of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pathways to Prevention workshop, "Total Worker Health-What's Work Got to Do With It?". The workshop speakers, audience contributors, and panelists provided useful insights. The Total Worker Health (TWH) program is defined as policies, programs, and practices that integrate protection from work-related safety and health hazards with promotion of injury and illness prevention efforts to advance worker well-being. The definition for TWH was updated in 2015 to emphasize that integration from a TWH perspective focuses on the ways work-related and nonwork risk factors interact to cause worker injury and illness. This represents an evolution from an earlier TWH definition when the evidence report was first commissioned. The current definition emphasizes the primacy of health protection and prioritizes work organizational factors over individual behaviors in advancing worker well-being. NIOSH is taking the following actions and looks forward to moving quickly to implement the panel's 8 recommendations. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Health Promotion Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Health Programs Health Protection Recommendations Risk Factors Total Worker Health Total Worker Health Cross-Sector Research Program TWH Work-life Balance Worker Health Work Organization
• ISSN:
  0003-4819
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Georgia ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  296-297
• Volume:
  165
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048368
• Citation:
  Ann Intern Med 2016 Aug; 165(4):296-297
• Contact Point Address:
  John Howard, MD, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Patriots Plaza 1, 395 E Street, Southwest, Suite 9200, Washington, DC 20201
• Email:
  jhoward1@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Annals of Internal Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203135/cdc_203135_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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