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ArticleLa Medicina del lavoro2022

Occupational Medicine and Total Worker Health®: from preventing health and safety risks in the workplace to promoting health for the total well-being of the worker.

Ivo Iavicoli, Giovanna Spatari, L Casey Chosewood, Paul A Schulte

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Article in La Medicina del lavoro, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Italian Technostress Creators Scale: Validation of an Assessment Tool.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2025
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  9. Management Approaches to Health and Safety at Work during Prevention Intervention Planning.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  11. Workplace Health Promotion Embedded in Medical Surveillance: The Italian Way to Total Worker Health Program.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  12. Occupational medicine: strategies to promote health and well-being in the workplace.Revista brasileira de medicina do trabalho : publicacao oficial da Associacao Nacional de Medicina do Trabalho-ANAMT
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Ivo IavicoliDepartment of Public Health, Section of Occupational Medicine, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy. ivo.iavicoli@unina.it.
Giovanna SpatariDepartment of Biomedical and Dentistry Sciences and Morphological and Functional Imaging, Università degli Studi di Messina, Messina, Italy. ivo.iavicoli@unina.it.
L Casey ChosewoodCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Atlanta, GA, United States. ivo.iavicoli@unina.it.
Paul A SchulteAdvanced Technologies and Laboratories International, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, United States. ivo.iavicoli@unina.it.
Advanced Technologies and Laboratories International (United States) · USCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · USFederico II University Hospital · ITUniversity of Messina · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of Public Health interventions for global social and economic development. Still, the community's well-being depends on each individual's health. In addition to pandemics, health conditions can be altered by chronic degenerative diseases, aging, disabilities, and work. Personal behaviors such as poor nutrition, lack of physical activity, tobacco use, excessive alcohol consumption, and drug use can also affect health and safety at work. In the last twenty years, we have witnessed rapid changes in the nature of work, workplace and workforce. In parallel, there is increasing attention to fatigue, psychosocial risks and the achievement of decent, sustainable and healthy work as societal goals. Consequently, in 2011, NIOSH developed Total Worker Health®, a holistic approach to worker well-being to help improve worker health and safety. More recently, in Italy, the Ministry of Health has provided for the preparation of projects according to the "Total Worker Health (TWH)" approach in the National Prevention Plan for the five years 2020-2025. As indicated by the Ministry, the strategic role of the occupational physician is fundamental, being the only figure of occupational safety and health professionals able to integrate the health and safety of workers with their well-being to reach the Total Worker Health.

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COVID-19Occupational MedicineExerciseHealth StatusHumansPandemics

Identifiers

PMID36475501
PMCPMC9766840
OpenAlexW4311573040

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