Optimizing the Health of Pre-Diabetic Healthcare Workers

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目将实施和评估一种新方法，使雇员、雇主和供应商参与进来，在信息技术的支持下改善雇员的健康和生产力。具体而言，我们的研究团队提出：1。通过使用自愿健康风险评估调查和空腹血糖，确定有患糖尿病（糖尿病前期）风险的员工群体；2. 为这部分员工提供个人导向的健康促进和疾病预防计划。随后实施各种各样的“生态”干预措施，旨在在工作场所创造一个社会环境，优化雇主对个人行为改变的支持；4. 采用新颖的信息技术，创建更加以患者为中心和有效的共享护理计划；5. 在研究的每个阶段衡量一系列结果，包括衡量健康行为和生物特征风险因素以及经济变量，如医疗保健成本、残疾、工人赔偿、缺勤和其他人类表现受损指标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will implement and evaluate a new approach to engage employees, their employer and providers to improve employee health and productivity with the support of information technology. Specifically, our research team proposes to: 1. identify the population of employees at risk for developing diabetes (pre-diabetes) through the use of a voluntary health risk appraisal survey and fasting blood sugar; 2. offer this sub-group of employees individually oriented health promotion and disease prevention programs 3. subsequently implement a wide variety of "ecological" interventions aimed at creating a social environment at the workplace that optimizes employer support for individual behavioral change; 4. employ novel information technologies to create a more patient-centered and effective, shared care plan; 5. measure an array of outcomes at each phase of the study that includes measures of health behaviors and biometric risk factors and economic variables such as costs of health care, disability, workers' compensation, absenteeism and other indicators of impaired human performance.