Evaluation results from the Healthy Work Collaborative: a cross-sectoral capacity building partnership to address precarious employment.

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• Personal Author:
  Bonney T ; Deb N ; Fisher E ; Jarpe-Ratner E ; Kapadia D ; Love M ; Pinsker E ; Welter C ; Yankelev A ; Zanoni J
• Description:
  Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated the profound health and safety risks of precariously employed workers, many of whom are disproportionately Latinx and Black. Precarious employment (PE) is a social determinant of health (SDOH) characterized by low wages, hazardous conditions, unstable work schedules, no termination protection, and few benefits. Even before COVID-19, calls for more effective health promotion efforts to address SDOH like PE existed. Purpose: The University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Healthy Work, Healthy Communities Through Healthy Work developed the Healthy Work Collaborative (HWC) as an evidence-informed capacity building policy, systems, and environmental change (PSE) initiative. The HWC aimed to facilitate cross-sectoral partnerships between health and labor sector partners. The labor sector provided technical assistance (TA) to participants to improve their ability to address PE through PSE. Methods: This article reports findings from a mixed-methods evaluation using the Kirkpatrick training model including participants' reactions, learning, behavior, and outcomes. A pre-post survey was administered to participants (N = 21) and analyzed descriptively; 3-month post HWC interviews were conducted (N = 13) and thematically analyzed. Conclusion: Findings included positive results at all Kirkpatrick levels. Participants' reported that the HWC curriculum and delivery was valuable and well received; they demonstrated gains toward addressing PE through PSE knowledge and skills and increased or strengthened health/labor partnerships. In addition, HWC influenced participants' application of HWC concepts, and in a few cases, participants' made changes in policies and plans in their organizational settings. The HWC may serve as a model to address other SDOH through cross-sectoral PSE change. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases Healthcare Disparities Health Promotion Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Precarious Employment; Labor; Policy; Systems And Environmental Change; Social Determinants Of Health; Capacity Building; Partnerships And Coalitions; Program Planning And Evaluation COVID-19; Coronavirus; Sociological Factors; Health Disparities; Health Promotion; Racial Factors; Policy; Worker Health; Community Based; Work Environment; Social Determinants Of Health; SDOH;
• ISSN:
  1524-8399
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  23
• Issue:
  5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065700
• Citation:
  Health Promot Pract 2022 Sep; 23(5):793-803
• Contact Point Address:
  Christina Welter, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1603 West Taylor Street, 679 SPHPI, Chicago, IL 60612-4394, USA
• Email:
  cwelte2@uic.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  University of Illinois at Chicago
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20160901
• Source Full Name:
  Health Promotion Practice
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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