Healthier Workforce Center for Excellence

更健康的劳动力卓越中心

• 批准号: 7932114
• 负责人: James A Merchant
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7932114
• 关键词: Healthier; Workforce; Center; Excellence

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Healthier Workforce Center for Excellence (HWCE) will be designed to improve our understanding of effective, integrated employee health programs and to translate this evidence base into practice for the benefit of employed populations. While the value of creating integrated health protection and health promotion programs has been described, there are many uncertainties related to practical implementation of such programs. It is not clear, for instance, how integration should best be achieved with regards to the following variables: private vs. public sector; type of work setting (e.g., manufacturing vs. high-tech); number and variety of job types in the particular workforce; effectiveness, availability, and utilization of existing health protection and health promotion resources; and the relative impact of company-, group-, and individual-level interventions. The HWCE will explore the effects of different integrated health protection/health promotion programs tailored to meet the needs of three different work environments: a health insurance company, a manufacturing firm, and a public university workforce that is decentralized, with widely varying job types. The Center's goals are: (1) To examine the relationships among predictors for absenteeism, work-related injury, workers' compensation claims, healthcare expenditures, and overall health. ( 2) To implement, evaluate, and compare three integrated health protection/health promotion models for the private and public sectors: (a) a policy approach to achieving integrated employee health; (b) an intervention based around an integrated worker safety/health promotion committee and (c) an intervention using a health counselor to integrate the delivery of health protection and health promotion services in a public sector setting; and (3) To establish a learning network of interactive partnerships with employers, employee groups including unions, and health care organizations. The policy-focused project will be evaluated with time series and cost effectiveness analyses. The worker safety/health promotion committee project will employ a quasiexperimental design with a delayed intervention component. The health counselor project will be a randomized controlled trial. And the learning network/education and translation project will be examined primarily using formative and process evaluation measures. The Center's research will improve public health by helping to develop workplaces that address employee health in a more effective, integrated fashion. The Center will also develop a learning network with employers, worker groups, universities, and others so that research findings can rapidly be put into practice in many settings throughout the U.S.

描述（由申请人提供）：健康劳动力卓越中心 (HWCE) 旨在提高我们对有效、综合的员工健康计划的理解，并将这一证据基础转化为实践，造福就业人口。虽然已经描述了创建综合健康保护和健康促进计划的价值，但此类计划的实际实施存在许多不确定性。例如，尚不清楚如何最好地实现以下变量的一体化：私营部门与公共部门；工作环境类型（例如，制造业与高科技）；特定劳动力中工作类型的数量和种类；现有健康保护和健康促进资源的有效性、可用性和利用；以及公司、团体和个人层面干预措施的相对影响。 HWCE 将探索不同的综合健康保护/健康促进计划的效果，这些计划旨在满足三种不同工作环境的需求：健康保险公司、制造公司和分散的、工作类型广泛不同的公立大学劳动力。该中心的目标是： (1) 研究缺勤、工伤、工人赔偿索赔、医疗保健支出和整体健康的预测因素之间的关系。 (2) 实施、评估和比较私营和公共部门的三种综合健康保护/健康促进模式： (a) 实现综合员工健康的政策方法； (b) 以综合工人安全/健康促进委员会为基础的干预措施，以及 (c) 利用健康顾问的干预措施，将公共部门环境中提供的健康保护和健康促进服务结合起来； (3) 与雇主、包括工会在内的雇员团体以及医疗保健组织建立互动伙伴关系的学习网络。以政策为重点的项目将通过时间序列和成本效益分析进行评估。工人安全/健康促进委员会项目将采用带有延迟干预成分的准实验设计。健康顾问项目将是一项随机对照试验。学习网络/教育和翻译项目将主要使用形成性和过程性评估措施进行审查。该中心的研究将通过帮助开发以更有效、更综合的方式解决员工健康问题的工作场所来改善公共健康。该中心还将与雇主、工人团体、大学和其他机构建立一个学习网络，以便研究成果能够在美国各地的许多环境中迅速付诸实践。