HSPH Center for Excellence to Promote a Healthier Workforce

描述(由申请人提供)：哈佛卓越中心促进更健康的劳动力的目标是建立一个可持续的跨学科计划，致力于研究、教育和传播，促进职业安全和健康与工作场所的整合。该中心将促进和扩大与不同雇主、工会和中介组织的合作，以帮助形成该中心的方向，并影响这些支持者之间关于应用综合方法来解决工人健康问题的对话。这一研究小组的领导进行了第一次研究，证明了工作场所健康保护和健康促进相结合对工人健康的好处。在坚实的机构支持基础上，他们组建了一支成就卓著的跨学科团队，拥有合作研究的记录，代表了职业健康与安全、社会和行为科学、社会流行病学、健康教育、医学、经济学、工程学、健康传播、组织行为学、护理、法律和生物统计学等不同学科。该中心将在两个高度优先的就业部门--建筑和医疗保健--启动研究，旨在解决整个研究阶段的优先研究问题。综合工人健康研究是卫生保健领域的一个新事物，因此，本研究侧重于使用社会流行病学方法、方法开发和初步干预测试进行研究的早期阶段。在建的先前研究为旨在减少二氧化硅暴露和戒烟的综合呼吸健康干预的随机试验的全面测试提供了坚实的基础。第三个项目将培训与工人健康相关的未来和实践专业人员，了解整合职业健康和安全以及工作场所健康促进的技能和方法，并将向关键利益攸关方和卫生专业人员传播最佳做法和计划。此外，战略性规划的试点项目将有助于培养未来的研究主动性。该中心的应用旨在实现职业健康和安全与工作场所健康促进相结合的愿景，超越各部分的简单总和，展望一种新的跨学科文化、科学和实践，在我们的工作中可操作，并为未来支持工人健康的研究、教育和传播提供全国模式。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the Harvard Center for Excellence to Promote a Healthier Workforce is to establish a sustainable trans-disciplinary program devoted to research, education, and dissemination that will facilitate the integration of occupational safety and health and workplace. The center will foster and expand collaborations with diverse employers, labor unions, and intermediary organizations to help shape the center's directions and to influence the dialogue among these constituencies regarding the application of integrated approaches to worker health. The leadership of this research team conducted the first research demonstrating the worker health benefits to be derived from integration of worksite health protection and health promotion. Building on solid institutional support, they have assembled an accomplished trans-disciplinary team with a track record of collaborative research, representing the diverse disciplines of occupational health and safety, social and behavioral sciences, social epidemiology, health education, medicine, economics, engineering, health communications, organizational behavior, nursing, law, and biostatistics. The center will initiate research in two high-priority employment sectors, construction and health care, aimed at addressing priority research questions across the full span of research phases. Integrated worker health research is a new to the health care sector, and accordingly, this study focuses on the early phases of research using social epidemiological methods, methods development, and preliminary intervention testing. Prior research in construction provides a firm foundation for full-scale testing in a randomized trial of an integrated respiratory health intervention aimed at silica exposure reduction and tobacco use cessation. A third project will train future and practicing professionals with a stake in worker health on skills and methods for integrating occupational health and safety and workplace health promotion, and will disseminate best practices and programs to key stakeholders and health professionals. In addition, strategically planned pilot projects will help to cultivate future research initiatives. This center application is aimed actualizing a vision for the integration of occupational health and safety and worksite health promotion that goes beyond the simple sum of the parts, to envision a new trans-disciplinary culture, science, and practice, operational in our work and providing a national model for future research, education and dissemination in support of worker health.