Healthier Workforce Center for Excellence

描述（由申请人提供）：爱荷华大学健康劳动力卓越中心建议通过实施三个中心目标来扩展其目前的研究，教育翻译，试点项目资助计划和外展计划：设计、实施和评估两个综合健康保护/促进研究项目，a)一个与健康教练健康促进计划相结合的参与式人体工程学计划，旨在减少人体工程学压力源、肌肉骨骼疾病结果及其在窗口制造设施中的相关成本；b)健康促进计划，旨在通过健康促进/指导和工程培训，增加健康行为和改善关键健康指标，减少肌肉骨骼损伤风险因素；目标2：通过州和地区学习网络实施和评估研究，以实践健康保护/疾病促进教育和培训计划；目标3：作为州和国家员工健康计划、员工健康服务和员工健康政策的信息、教育和政策资源。该中心拥有一支高素质的领导团队和内部咨询委员会，增加了新的高素质调查员，并由其非常强大和多样化的外部咨询委员会提供明智的建议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Iowa Healthier Workforce Center of Excellence proposes to extend its current research, education translation, pilot project grant program and outreach program through implementation of three Center goals: Goal 1: To design, implement, and evaluate two integrated health protection/promotion research projects, a) a participatory ergonomics program integrated with a health coach health promotion program designed to reduce ergonomic stressors, musculoskeletal disease outcomes and their related costs in window manufacturing facilities; and b) a health promotion program designed to increase healthy behaviors and improve key health indicators integrated with musculoskeletal injury risk factor reduction through health promotion/coaching and engineering training in the retail grocery trade; Goal 2: To implement and evaluate research to practice health protection/disease promotion education and training programs through a state and regional learning network; and Goal 3: To serve as a state and national information, education and policy resource on employee health programs, employee health services and employee health policy. The Center has a well qualified leadership team and Internal Advisory Committee, has added new and highly qualified investigators, and is wisely advised by its very strong and diverse External Advisory Committee. The HWCE has documented a record of productive WorkLife research and electronic translation of its research to practice through implementation and expansion of its Healthier Workforce Learning Network (HWLN), which has forged important collaborations with the Patient Education Institute and the National Library of Medicine, and will exploit these important relationships to develop and evaluate 10 WorkLife tutorials annually, and will extend its successful HWLN-based Iowa WorkLife Forum as a means to evaluate WorkLife Tutorials and other Center employee health educational programs. The HWCE Outreach Program proposes to extend its stakeholder relationships through the development of an Iowa Stakeholder Advisory Committee, bi-annual conferences, bi-annual surveys, expansion of its dedicated web-site, and its state and national policy papers and advocacy.