Steps to a Healthier U.S. Workforce: Integrating Occupational Health and Safety and Worksite Health Promotion: State of the Science

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• Alternative Title:
  Research Compendium: The NIOSH Total Worker Health Program: Seminal Research Papers 2012: Steps to a Healthier U.S. Workforce: Integrating Occupational Health and Safety and Worksite Health Promotion: State of the Science
• Personal Author:
  Barbeau, Elizabeth M. ; Sorensen, Glorian
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This paper presents the rationale and scientific evidence for coordinating and integrating worksite health promotion and occupational health and safety as a means of enhancing the effectiveness of efforts to promote and protect worker health. Commissioned by NIOSH for its 2004 Steps to a Healthier U.S. Workforce symposium, this paper is intended to stimulate discussion and improve communication between the fields of worksite health promotion and occupational safety and health. We describe the parameters of each approach and suggest common goals and areas to increase coordination, with special attention to the implications of a rapidly changing labor market on future research priorities. We present recommendations for future research, barriers to be overcome to advance knowledge in this area, and suggestions for creating additional opportunities for scientists from a broad range of disciplines to engage in integrated occupational health and safety/worksite health promotion research aimed at improving worker health. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Health Promotion Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Disease-prevention Employee-health Health-programs Health-protection Injury-prevention Occupational-health-programs Occupational-safety-programs Occupations Safety-programs Safety-research Total-Worker-Health Worker-health

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• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Conference Publications
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; OSHA Region 3 ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director ; DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-65
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041160
• Citation:
  "Steps to a Healthier U.S. Workforce: Integrating Occupational Health and Safety and Worksite Health Promotion: State of the Science" in Research Compendium: The NIOSH Total Worker Health Program: Seminal Research Papers 2012. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2012-146, 2012 May: 1-214
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7a67eae78e84a227c8a48b2bc0fd4828d56e75db8f55591a88de310fa4353df3cde1dafbc4d962df5688040adc62107ad5d39d306db696e3b5b3ac05c9556d67
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/249195/cdc_249195_DS1.pdf
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