Friday, May 18, 2012

NIOSH Papers on the Benefits of Health Programs

"The health and well-being of working people and their families are greatly influenced by the quality of their work environments, whether resulting directly from exposures to physical hazards on the job and risks associated with the organizational context, or indirectly through the impact of work on health behaviors.”  

This excerpt is from the preface of NIOSH’s recently published document, The ResearchCompendium: The NIOSH Total Worker Health Program: Seminal Research Papers 2012, which shows why extended research on the benefits of integrated programs can improve the health of workers and workplaces. Made up of a compilation of three commissioned papers from NIOSH’s 2004 conference, Steps to a Healthier Workforce Symposium, the report is widely cited and is considered seminal writing on the science and practice of integrating health protection and health promotion. Limited copies of this document will also soon be available in print. For more information on NIOSH initiatives, visit their site at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/.