Advancing Well-Being Through Total Worker Health®

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• Alternative Title:
  Workplace Health Saf
• Personal Author:
  Schill, Anita L.
• Description:
  Total Worker Health® (TWH) is a paradigm-shifting approach to safety, health, and well-being in the workplace. It 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 most current TWH concepts are presented, including a description of issues relevant to TWH and introduction of a hierarchy of controls applied to TWH. Total Worker Health advocates for a foundation of safety and health through which work can contribute to higher levels of well-being.
• Subjects:
  Cost-Benefit Analysis Health Promotion Humans Occupational Health Program Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Health And Safety Hierarchy Of Controls Job Crafting Meaningful Work Total Worker Health Well-being Wellness
• Source:
  Workplace Health Saf. 65(4):158-163
• Pubmed ID:
  28414625
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6331007
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  65
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:012d75b68dfcb573e8df2fd2cd0e8e1cf3cbd342fb6aca8ad84c72a9c162eeef
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/62024/cdc_62024_DS1.pdf
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