Advancing Well-Being Through Total Worker Health®

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• Journal Article:
  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
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2165079917701140
• Pubmed ID:
  28414625
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6331007
• Document Type:
  Text ; Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  65
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:abe0dade498db285a00d22b48fd5058a9212f2cef16ffc533da9a852d034cdc45d2c2823dbc71a076d47afdd839b51bc637732537726380121f5e70ffecf2a2b
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