Worksite Health Promotion for Low-wage Workers: A Scoping Literature Review

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Health Promot
• Personal Author:
  Stiehl, Emily ; Shivaprakash, Namrata ; Thatcher, Esther ; Ornelas, India J. ; Kneipp, Shawn ; Baron, Sherry L. ; Muramatsu, Naoko
• Description:
  Objective
  
  To determine: (1) What research has been done on health promotion interventions for low-wage workers and (2) What factors are associated with effective low-wage workers’ health promotion.
  
  Data Source
  
  This review includes articles from PubMed and PsychINFO published in or before July 2016
  
  Study Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria
  
  The search yielded 130 unique articles, 35 met the inclusion criteria: (1) being conducted in the US, (2) including an intervention or empirical data around health promotion among adult low-wage workers, and (3) measuring changes in low-wage worker health.
  
  Data Extraction
  
  Central features of the selected studies were extracted, including the theoretical foundation, study design, health promotion intervention content and delivery format, intervention targeted outcomes, sample characteristics, and work, occupational, and industry characteristics.
  
  Data Analysis
  
  Consistent with a scoping review, we used a descriptive, content analysis approach to analyze extracted data. All authors agreed upon emergent themes and two authors independently coded data extracted from each article.
  
  Results
  
  The results suggest that the research on low-wage workers’ health promotion is limited, but increasing, and that low-wage workers have limited access to and utilization of worksite health promotion programs.
  
  Conclusions
  
  Workplace health promotion programs could have a positive effect on low-wage workers, but more work is needed to understand how to expand access, what drives participation and which delivery mechanisms are most effective.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Health Promotion Humans Occupational Health Poverty Workplace
• Source:
  Am J Health Promot. 32(2):359-373.
• Pubmed ID:
  28893085
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5770241
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U48 DP005010/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  32
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:94ea01d0e4367be2354ed4ee1297f6e6bf9f2e5ff06b9600aaba6ed4aa607d74
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/50885/cdc_50885_DS1.pdf
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