Utah Center for Promotion of Work Equity (U-POWER)

摘要（总体中心） 犹他州促进工作公平研究中心（U-POWER）设想的工作和工作场所是 安全、健康、公平。我们共同努力，可以确保工作条件促进健康和良好- 工人和社区的存在。U-POWER的使命是创建一个可持续的实践社区 改变工作条件，并通过研究推进Total Worker Health®（TWH）， 外展U-POWER的整合主题是权力在定义工作条件中的作用， 工人中存在不平等和健康状况不佳现象。权力是使一个人想要的事情发生的能力， 由于关系、政策和法规以及历史和当前意识形态赋予的权威， 造成和维持不平等的规范，包括长期存在的损害（或 促进）安全、健康和幸福。工作公平是指谁能获得安全、健康的工作的公平。 U-POWER认为，对权力在工人安全、健康和福祉中的作用的探讨， 为研究、行动和教育提供新的机会，产生可持续的、普遍的变革， 工作公平和TWH。U-POWER的总体目标是：1）促进实践社区， 关注改变工作条件和推进TWH; 2）通过创新推进TWH 研究和推广，由转化研究过程和社区参与指导。过程 在U-POWER的活动是由正义和公平对待，社区，严谨和 相关性、转型和参与式决策。U-POWER包括：规划和 评价核心;一个外联核心，其活动以成人学习理论和 以社区为基础的参与性研究和知识行动;研究试点项目计划;和五个 研究项目，涉及跨学科的调查和跨越翻译研究的连续性， 解决与TWH和工作平等相关的问题。U-POWER体现了大学的两个关键优先事项 犹他州-促进公平，多样性和包容性，并通过跨校园解决重大社会挑战 合作，并因此获得了大量的财政和组织支持。

ABSTRACT (OVERALL CENTER) The Utah Center for Promotion of Work Equity Research (U-POWER) envisions work and workplaces that are safe, healthy, and equitable. Together, we can ensure that the conditions of work promote the health and well- being of workers and communities. The mission of U-POWER is to create a sustainable community of practice that changes the conditions of work and advances Total Worker Health® (TWH) through research and outreach. The integrating theme of U-POWER is the role of power in defining work conditions that create and sustain inequity and ill health among workers. Power is the ability to make what one wants happen, and occurs because of authority granted by relations, policy, and regulation, and through historical and current ideologies and norms that create and sustain inequality, including the persistence of work conditions that harm (or promote) safety, health, and well-being. Work equity refers to equity in who has access to safe, healthy work. U-POWER posits that interrogation of the role of power in workers’ safety, health, and well-being can illuminate new opportunities for research, action, and education that yield sustainable, generalized change to promote work equity and TWH. The aims of U-POWER overall are to: 1) Facilitate a community of practice that shares the concern of changing the conditions of work and advancing TWH and 2) Advance TWH through innovative research and outreach, guided by the translational research process and community engagement. Processes and activities in U-POWER are guided by the values of justice and fair treatment, community, rigor and relevance, transformation, and participatory decision-making. U-POWER is comprised of: a Planning and Evaluation Core; an Outreach Core whose activities are guided by adult learning theory and the frameworks of community-based participatory research and Knowledge to Action; a Research Pilot Project Program; and five research projects that involve interdisciplinary investigators and span the continuum of translational research to address issues relevant to TWH and work equity. U-POWER embodies two key priorities of the University of Utah—to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion and address big societal challenges through cross-campus collaborations—and, as a result, has garnered significant financial and organizational support.