UIC Center for Healthy Work

Details

• Personal Author:
  Conroy LM ; Hebert-Beirne J ; Welter C
• Description:
  The UIC Center for Healthy Work (CHW) has successfully met its aims as outlined to the sponsor. Specific aims around research, intervention design, knowledge translation and dissemination have resulted in the proceeding outcomes of note. The Outreach Cores, Communication and Outreach group has built the necessary infrastructure to translate knowledge and disseminate evidence over multiple social and information channels. The CHW Internal Advisory Board (IAB) also provided the infrastructure to oversee the accomplishment of Center and project aims. The IAB consistently engaged in strategic discussion about research activities, opportunities for collaboration, knowledge transfer, and internal capacity building. Through its management structure, the Center for Healthy Work's IAB has positioned the Center to successfully facilitate multi-disciplinary research and dissemination. The development of the Greater Lawndale Council, comprised of Greater Lawndale community members, community organizations, and worker center representatives, is an intervention that identifies and builds on sustainable community initiatives to promote healthy work in Greater Lawndale. To date, the Greater Lawndale Council has; (1) Explored community-level approaches for improving residents' health at work with results documented in 3 manuscripts, with 2 under review, and with 5 manuscripts and an invited book chapter on community engagement in development; (2) Built community capacity for recognizing worker health as community health through community infographics, events, and Greater Lawndale Lotería: An evidence-informed, historically grounded and worker-justice themed card game to promote awareness of precarious work at the neighborhood level; and (3) Developed community-based interventions that expand residents' access to healthy jobs this includes A series of Co-op 101 Workshops to increase knowledge and awareness about worker cooperatives among GL community members, a policy analysis to support informal workers by analyzing home-based business ordinances, A policy analysis to support temp workers' health through changes to workers' compensation systems in Illinois in order to build capacity and accountability among current community members, CBOs, and local government, and a COVID-19 Stories Project to understand how COVID-19 has impacted the work situations of community members. Using a trauma-informed story collection approach, 26 GL community members were interviewed about by neighborhood youth. The Development of the Healthy Work Collaborative (HWC) was an evidence-informed capacity building policy, systems, and environmental change initiative which aimed to facilitate cross-sectoral partnerships between health and labor sector partners. The HWC anticipated outcomes were increased relationships, collaborative group processes, social norms change, and PSE change. Evaluation findings from the HWC indicate positive results at all Kirkpatrick levels, which assesses training methods by reaction, learning, behavior, and results. Participants reported that the HWC curriculum and delivery was valuable and well received; they demonstrated success in addressing precarious employment through policy, systems, and environmental change skills and increased or strengthened health/labor partnerships. The overall goal of the CHW is to implement strategies and actions to inform systems change to improve worker and community health. The CHW continues to work toward removing barriers that impact the health of low wage workers. Our continued activities aim to identify and promote employment programs, practices, and policies that will improve worker and community health locally, across the state, and throughout the nation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases Community Health Services Health Promotion Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Community Health Coronavirus COVID-19 Health Promotion Information Dissemination Intervention Effectiveness Partnership Translational Research Worker Health
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Final Cooperative Agreement Report
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-39
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065693
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U19-OH-011232, 2022 Mar; :1-39
• Contact Point Address:
  Lorraine M. Conroy, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, School of Public Health, 1603 W Taylor M/C 923, Chicago, IL 60612
• Email:
  lconroy@uic.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  University of Illinois at Chicago
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20160901
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:bf672ee880d11f3f5fe8cb7ec9b583dec905dcf9a1e0387419831e198282c8c672e2638cf62aa17d5dc744d43c3306957065863b84472d77aaad81716f9d4b62
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219118/cdc_219118_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.37 MB ]