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ArticlePublic health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)

Workplace health protection and promotion through participatory ergonomics: an integrated approach.

Robert Henning, Nicholas Warren, Michelle Robertson, Pouran Faghri, Martin Cherniack, CPH-NEW Research Team

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Article in Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

50 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Moral issues in workplace health promotion.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2012
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  10. Expanding the Focus of Occupational Safety and Health: Lessons from a Series of Linked Scientific Meetings.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  13. Evaluation of the HearWell Pilot Program: A ParticipatoryInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  17. Optimizing Radiology Reading Room Design: The Eudaimonia Radiology Machine.Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Robert HenningCenter for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace, Psychology Department, University of Connecticut, 406 Babbidge Rd., Storrs, CT 06269-1020, USA. robert.henning@uconn.edu
Nicholas Warren
Michelle Robertson
Pouran Faghri
Martin Cherniack
CPH-NEW Research Team

Funding

Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England WorkplaceU19OH008857 · OH · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL · PI PUNNETT, LAURA · 2006 to 2020
$20.4M
ACL HHS U19OH008857NIOSH CDC HHS U19 OH008857NIOSH CDC HHS U19-OH008857
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace (CPH-NEW) developed an evidence-based approach to address three recognized challenges to workplace programs designed to improve employee health: establishing employee ownership, integrating with work organization, and sustainability. The two main innovations being introduced in combination were (1) integrating traditional workplace health protection (e.g., ergonomics, industrial hygiene) with health promotion (e.g., assisting workers in improving health behaviors) and (2) introducing a bottom-up participatory model for engaging employees in innovative iterative design efforts to enhance both components of this integrated program. In the program, which was modeled after participatory ergonomics programs, teams of workers engage in the iterative design of workplace interventions to address their prioritized health concerns with the support of a multilevel steering committee. The integrated approach being tested can complement existing worksite safety and health initiatives and promote organizational learning, with expected synergistic effects.

Indexed as

Occupational HealthCommunity ParticipationErgonomicsHealth BehaviorHealth PromotionHumansInterdisciplinary CommunicationModels, OrganizationalOccupational Health ServicesOrganizational InnovationProgram DevelopmentProgram Evaluation

Identifiers

PMID19618804
PMCPMC2708654

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