Carolina Center for Healthy Work Design and Worker Well-Being

卡罗莱纳州健康工作设计和工人福祉中心

• 批准号: 10652304
• 负责人: LAURA A LINNAN
• 金额: $ 103.61万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10652304
• 关键词: Carolina; Center; Healthy; Work; Design

ABSTRACT More than 63% of US adults are employed, and work exerts an independent, powerful influence on their health. At UNC Chapel Hill, our recognition of the role of work in health has driven our long history of occupational safety and health promotion activities, including surveillance, basic etiology, intervention and translation research, practice, and influence on public policy. As we conducted needs and strengths assessments in preparation for this Center proposal, we saw how the COVID-19 pandemic created a massive re-shaping of work, work conditions, and worker health – particularly related to mental health and well-being among essential workers. This observation created tremendous interest among investigators at UNC Chapel Hill, the NC Occupational Safety and Health Education Research Center, UNC's Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and Injury Prevention Research Center, collaborators at Duke University and UNC Greensboro, and key stakeholders from public and private sectors to join forces to establish a new Carolina Center for Total Worker Health and Well-Being. The mission of the Carolina Center is to generate new knowledge and implement activities to improve worker health and well-being in North Carolina, the southeast region, and the nation. Strong leadership, national experts on our External Advisory Committee (EAC) and at RTI International will work with us to conduct the overall Center evaluation, with a goal of continuous quality improvement that informs strategic planning efforts. Within the Center's Pilot Project Program, we will employ data-driven approaches to prioritize proposals funded, be responsive to emerging issues, and support the work of the four proposed research projects which address three essential worker groups (nurses/physicians, firefighters and childcare) and an under-studied group of LGBTQ workers. Given the current and growing needs we identified, we will focus our attention on mental health and well-being of these workers, as well as traditional occupational safety outcomes such as slips, trips and falls. We will investigate different participatory approaches to engaging with workers and other stakeholders as we move the research enterprise from basic etiology and surveillance, to intervention and translation. Our Center's work directly addresses NORA and TWH Research Agenda priorities with important, innovative research, as well as outreach and education activities that will communicate the benefits of a TWH approach to businesses and key stakeholders, translate our findings and disseminate them to improve policy and practice, and build capacity for TWH among new and current occupational safety and health professionals through the expansion of our existing TWH certificate to non-degree seeking health professionals. As evidenced by enthusiastic letters of support from existing partners at UNC, our EAC members and others in Region 4, and several other TWH Center representatives, the Carolina Center is uniquely positioned to address the challenges of improving worker and workplace health in North Carolina, the southeastern region, and nationally.

超过63%的美国成年人有工作，工作对他们有着独立而强大的影响力 对他们的健康。在查佩尔山，我们对工作在健康中的作用的认识推动了我们悠久的历史， 职业安全和健康促进活动，包括监测、基本病因学、干预和 翻译研究，实践和对公共政策的影响。当我们进行需求和优势 在为该中心的提案做准备的过程中，我们看到了COVID-19大流行如何造成了大规模的 重新塑造工作、工作条件和工人健康-特别是与心理健康和福祉有关的健康 在基本工人中。这一发现引起了萨德尔查普尔研究人员的极大兴趣 希尔，北卡罗来纳州职业安全与健康教育研究中心，北卡罗来纳州健康促进中心 和疾病预防和伤害预防研究中心，合作者在杜克大学和 格林斯伯勒，以及来自公共和私营部门的主要利益相关者联手建立一个新的卡罗莱纳 工人健康与福利中心。卡罗莱纳中心的使命是产生新的 知识和实施活动，以改善工人的健康和福祉在北卡罗来纳州，东南部 地区和国家。强有力的领导，我们的外部咨询委员会（EAC）和 RTI国际公司将与我们合作，以持续质量为目标，对中心进行整体评估 为战略规划工作提供信息的改进。在中心的试点项目计划中，我们将雇用 采用数据驱动的方法，对资助的提案进行优先排序，对新出现的问题做出反应，并支持工作 在针对三个基本工作者群体（护士/医生， 消防员和儿童保育）和一个研究不足的LGBTQ工作者群体。鉴于目前和不断增长的 我们确定的需求，我们将把重点放在这些工人的心理健康和福祉，以及 传统的职业安全后果，如滑倒、绊倒和福尔斯。我们将研究不同的参与性 当我们将研究企业从基础研究转向基础研究时， 病因学和监测，干预和翻译。我们中心的工作直接针对诺拉， TWH研究议程的优先事项与重要的，创新的研究，以及推广和教育 将TWH方法的好处传达给企业和主要利益相关者的活动， 我们的研究结果，并传播他们，以改善政策和实践，并建立能力，为TWH之间的新的和 现有的职业安全和健康专业人员，通过扩大我们现有的TWH证书， 非学历的医疗专业人士。从现有的热情支持信中可以看出， 我们的EAC成员和第4区域的其他人，以及其他几位TWH中心代表， 卡罗莱纳中心在解决改善工人和工作场所健康的挑战方面具有独特的地位 在北卡罗来纳州，东南部地区，和全国。