Healthy Work Collaborative: Examples from the Field – Partnerships to Advance Total Worker Health® Through Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change – 2019

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• Corporate Authors:
  University of Illinois Chicago. Center for Healthy Work
• Description:
  The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Center for Healthy Work is a research and education center established in 2016 to advance the health and well-being of workers in Chicago, the state of Illinois, and the nation. The Center's mission is to remove barriers that impact the health of those employed in precarious jobs. Precarious work is a term that describes work that is unstable, unpredictable, or otherwise risky for the worker, including low- and minimum-wage jobs, jobs lacking opportunities for advancement, contracted/temporary jobs, and jobs without benefits or protections from exploitation and abuse. Our center is one of six Centers of Excellence for Total Worker Health(R), funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Total Worker Health 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 focus of our research is on the significant number of precariously employed workers which is growing across all US economic sectors. Precariously employed workers are at greater risk of occupational injury, physical and mental illness, and fatalities. They often lack opportunities to build power and take collective action in the workplace leading to depersonalization, devaluation, and increased likelihood of bullying, harassment, and discrimination. Precariously employed workers are also less likely to have access to traditional sources of protection because of fractured employer relationships and labor misclassification. Programs targeted to improving the health and working conditions for these workers are complex because they are unlikely to have a regular employer or workplace precluding the workplace as a point of intervention. The causes and impacts of precarious employment are complex and multi-faceted. In order to best address the complexity of precarious work, integrated public health initiatives should consider the complex interplay between work-related and non-work-related factors that integrate health protection with health promotion, while also addressing the need to utilize multidimensional and multi-sectoral approaches across all levels of the social-ecological environment. Policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change initiatives may address the community and structural-level causes of health and disease for precarious employment. However, little is known about PSE approaches to promote healthy work for those in precarious jobs. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Community Health Services Education Emigration And Immigration Environment Healthcare Disparities Health Promotion Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Community Health Education And Research Centers Environmental Factors ERCs Health Disparities Health Promotion Immigrant Workers Information Dissemination Intervention Labor Relations Medical Research Occupational Safety And Health Partnership Racial Factors Safety Research Sociological Factors Temporary Workers Total Worker Health Training TWH Work Environment Worker Health Worker Safety Workforce Development Work Intervals Work Operations Work Organization

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• Publisher:
  Center for Healthy Work
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Case Studies
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-52
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063207
• Citation:
  Chicago, IL: University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Healthy Work, 2019 Nov; :1-52
• Contact Point Address:
  UIC School of Public Health - Center for Healthy Work, 1603 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60612
• Email:
  healthywork@uic.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2020
• Performing Organization:
  University of Illinois at Chicago
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20160901
• Source Full Name:
  Healthy work collaborative: examples from the field - partnerships to advance Total Worker Health® through policy, systems, and environmental change - 2019
• 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/226309/cdc_226309_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 13.65 MB ]