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Total Worker Health is a trademarked strategy integrating occupational safety and health protection with health promotion to prevent worker injury and illness to advance health and well-being. It was conceived and funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Total Worker Health is tested and developed in four "Centers of Excellence" in the United States. ==History== Total Worker Health originated from the ''Steps to a Healthier US Workforce'' Symposium in October 2004, which sought to bring together knowledge and experience of health protection and health promotion, in order to stimulate action for the development of programs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CDC - Total Worker Health History of Total Worker Health - NIOSH Workplace Safety and Health Program )〕 The syposium developed around themes of research, practice and policy related to the integration of health protection and health promotion.〔 By 2005, the initiative was redeveloped from the ''Steps to a Healthier US Workforce'' Symposium and renamed the NIOSH WorkLife Initiative.〔 The WorkLife Initiative supported addressing worker health and well-being in a novel way, by addressing the physical and organizational work environment concurrently with personal health decisions and behaviors of individuals.〔 Some aims of the WorkLife Inititative included supporting evaluation of integrative approaches to work and health, promoting adoption of proven policies and practices, motivating trans-disciplinary collaboration among investigators and overcoming the traditional separation of occupational health and health promotion among professional communities.〔 In September 2007, NIOSH and 35 other sponsors conducted the "WorkLife 2007: Protecting and Promoting Worker Health" symposium, in which over 450 participants explored the science and economics of integrated work-based programs, policies and practices that sustain and improve worker health and well-being.〔 Collaborators at the symposium, which included leaders from labor, business and academic communities provided evidence of work and health benefits from integrated approaches.〔 Coupled with case studies and anectodal reports, the overall consesus was that such integrated work-based programs, if executed and sustained properly, can be good for worker health and business.〔 In 2008, collaborators at NIOSH and the Centers of Excellence developed 10 recommendations, grouped in practice, research and policy, as a long-range strategy for advancing the WorkLife Initiative. These recommendations were based on evidence-based practice and research-to-practice initiatives.〔 In 2011, a collaborative symposium with other federal agencies cultiminated in the "Healthier Federal Workers 2011 Symposium," which applied the integrated work health approaches to federal employees.〔 In 2011, NIOSH WorkLife became Total Worker Health™ to better convey the more comprehensive approach to workplace prevention.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CDC - Total Worker Health WorkLife Transitions to Total Worker Health - NIOSH Workplace Safety and Health Program )〕 With Total Worker Health, NIOSH can continue to develop the initiatives from the WorkLife Initiative through research, interventions, partnerships and capacity building to meet the needs of the 21st century workforce.〔 The 10th International Conference on Occupational Stress and Health, known as ''Work, Stress and Health 2013'' will be organized by NIOSH along with the American Psychological Association and the Society for Occupational Health Psychology and will center on Total Worker Health.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Work, Stress and Health 2013 )〕 Proposed provisions to the The Affordable Care Act for the year 2014 onwards, made by the Obama administration, include a proposed rule allowing employers to increase incentives awarded to employees participating in workplace wellness programs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CDC - NIOSH - Total Worker Health in Action - January 2013 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obama administration moves forward to implement health care law, ban discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions )〕 Specifically, employers will be able to increase incentives from the currently allowable 20% to as much as 30% of an employee's insurance costs, and up to 50% in some cases.〔 This provision applies to employees working towards achieving an agreed-upon wellness goal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Total Worker Health」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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