Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest

中西部更健康的劳动力中心

• 批准号: 10338282
• 负责人: Diane S Rohlman
• 金额: $ 108.13万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10338282
• 关键词: Healthier; Workforce; Center; Midwest

The states in Federal Region VII (Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri) disproportionately suffer from higher burdens of occupational injury and illness and higher rates of unhealthy behaviors compared to other regions of the country. Our predominately rural region also has high rates of poverty and lower healthcare access. The opioid epidemic and suicide have disproportionately affected the construction industry. Work patterns have shifted due to technology and economic forces, accelerated by the pandemic, which has led to increased remote work and increased stress on frontline workers, including nursing home workers. The experienced interdisciplinary team of the Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest will address these and other health issues through research, outreach, and education. The Center's vision is to create a safe, healthy, and productive workforce and will be achieved through basic and applied research, a participatory approach, and theory driven educational and translational activities. The Center is a collaboration between the University of Iowa, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Kansas Medical Center, WorkWell Kansas, and two NIOSH Total Worker Health Affiliates, the Nebraska Safety Council and the St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition. The Center includes an Evaluation and Planning Core, which provides coordination, leadership, evaluation, and an emerging issues program; an Outreach Core that translates evidence based findings and provides education; and a Research Core which includes two large research projects: Preventing Suicide and Promoting Mental Health in Construction Workers and Supervising the Future of Remote Workers: Promoting Supervisor and Worker Well-being, two small research projects: Refining Workplace Opioid Guidelines for Dissemination through a Social Marketing Approach and Implementation of Total Worker Health in Rural Nursing Homes, and a Pilot Program that explicitly promotes career development and capacity building of community and academic partners. Recognizing the greater impact of organizational changes, proposed Cores focus not only on changes at the individual worker level, but also policies and programs to change work climate and culture. The Center will address emerging issues and high-risk, high-need populations in employers of all sizes targeting NIOSH strategic goals and priority populations. Center activities will broadly address NIOSH Strategic Goal 7: promote safe and healthy work design and well-being, and most goals of the NIOSH TWH Agenda, including all of the intermediate goals and a majority of the activity goals under Strategic Goals 1 (Research), 2 (Practice), 3 (Policy), and 4 (Capacity Building).

联邦第七区的各州（爱荷华州、堪萨斯州、内布拉斯加州和密苏里州）遭受的损失尤为严重 与其他地区相比，工伤和疾病的负担以及不健康行为的发生率更高 国家的。我们主要是农村地区的贫困率也很高，医疗保健机会也较低。这 阿片类药物流行和自杀对建筑业造成了不成比例的影响。工作模式有 由于技术和经济力量而发生的转变，并因大流行而加速，这导致了 远程工作给包括疗养院工作人员在内的一线工作人员带来了更大的压力。经验丰富的 中西部健康劳动力中心的跨学科团队将解决这些问题和其他健康问题 通过研究、推广和教育来解决问题。该中心的愿景是创造一个安全、健康、 生产力劳动力，将通过基础和应用研究、参与性方法和 理论驱动的教育和转化活动。该中心是与大学之间的合作 爱荷华州、圣路易斯华盛顿大学、堪萨斯大学医学中心、WorkWell Kansas 和两所 NIOSH Total Worker Health 附属机构、内布拉斯加州安全委员会和圣路易斯地区商业健康 联盟。该中心包括一个评估和规划核心，提供协调、领导、 评估和新出现的问题计划；外展核心，翻译基于证据的发现和 提供教育；研究核心包括两个大型研究项目：预防自杀和 促进建筑工人的心理健康并监督远程工人的未来：促进 主管和工人福祉，两个小型研究项目：完善工作场所阿片类药物指南 通过社会营销方式传播并在农村实施职工全面健康 疗养院，以及明确促进职业发展和能力建设的试点计划 社区和学术合作伙伴。认识到组织变革的更大影响，提议的核心 不仅关注工人个人层面的变化，还关注改变工作氛围的政策和计划 和文化。该中心将解决所有雇主中新出现的问题和高风险、高需求人群 针对 NIOSH 战略目标和优先人群的规模。中心活动将广泛涉及 NIOSH 战略目标 7：促进安全健康的工作设计和福祉，以及 NIOSH TWH 的大部分目标 议程，包括战略目标 1 下的所有中期目标和大部分活动目标 （研究）、2（实践）、3（政策）和 4（能力建设）。