UIC Center for Healthy Work

摘要 UIC健康工作中心(CHW)旨在确定和促进就业计划、做法和 将改善工人和社区健康的政策。我们的愿景是促进包容性的工作的未来 和公平的健康工作机会，健康工作被认为是一种社会和结构 健康和人权的决定因素，促进系统变革和种族正义的途径，以及 对员工福祉做出重大贡献的人。历史和系统的种族主义和不公正导致了 妇女、黑人、土著和有色人种的就业机会和工作质量不平等 不成比例地从事危险工作的移民。CHW旨在解决这些不平等问题 通过以种族正义为中心的政策、制度和环境(PSE)变革倡议，以支持 建立和维持健康工作的社区和机构。CHW的具体目标是：1)行为 通过跨学科和参与性、应用性和种族正义收集证据的研究- 以研究为中心，探索工作作为健康的社会和结构性决定因素，并确定行动以 促进健康工作；2)建立和加强跨生态社会的多方向合作和参与 创建支持健康工作的网络；3)发展和扩大PSE变革倡议的覆盖范围 建设能力，以处理跨生态社会各级和地理位置的不稳定工作；以及4) 翻译和传播证据，以促进支持健康工作和工人的政策和做法 为工作场所内外的所有员工提供福祉。CHW包括1)研究核心， 设计和实施参与性行动研究，涉及多学科调查团队 与社区和组织合作伙伴协作，2)旨在促进 战略研究翻译议程；加强和扩大利益攸关方网络，并广泛 通过多方向的合作伙伴参与和能力传播全面员工健康最佳实践- 建设，以及3)规划和评估核心，它将在以下指导下为CHW提供领导 内部咨询委员会和外部咨询委员会。CHW解决了就业不稳定的问题 所有经济部门，并支持健康工作设计和福祉交叉的目标- 促进NIOSH校外研究优先目标中的战略目标7。我们的 研究核心使用参与式行动研究(PAR)方法，研究人员和合作伙伴在此工作 共同理解和解决一个复杂的主题，并专注于社会或政策变化。这种方法是 符合并推进R2P的目标。

ABSTRACT The UIC Center for Healthy Work’s (CHW) aims to identify and promote employment programs, practices, and policies that will improve worker and community health. Our vision is a future of work that promotes inclusive and equitable opportunities for healthy work, and healthy work is recognized as a social and structural determinant of health and a human right, a pathway to advancing systemic change and racial justice, and a significant contributor to workforce well-being. Historical and systemic racism and injustices have led to inequitable job opportunities and job quality for women, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), and immigrants who are disproportionately employed in precarious jobs. The CHW aims to address these inequities through racial justice–centered policy, systems and environmental (PSE) change initiatives to support communities and institutions to build and sustain healthy work. The CHW specific aims are: 1) Conduct research to produce evidence gathered through transdisciplinary and participatory, applied, and racial justice– centered research to explore work as a social and structural determinant of health and identify actions to promote healthy work; 2) Build and strengthen multidirectional collaboration and engagement across eco-social levels to create networks that support healthy work; 3) Develop and expand the reach of PSE change initiatives to build capacity to address precarious work across eco-social levels and geographical locations; and 4) Translate and disseminate evidence to promote policies and practices that support healthy work and worker well-being for all workers, within and outside the workplaces. The CHW includes 1) a Research Core that designs and conducts participatory action research involving multi-disciplinary teams of investigators in collaboration with community and organizational partners, 2) an Outreach Core which aims to facilitate a strategic research translation agenda; to strengthen and expand networks of stakeholders, and to widely disseminate Total Worker Health best-practices through multi-directional partner engagement and capacity- building, and 3) a Planning and Evaluation Core which will provide leadership for the CHW, guided by an internal advisory board and an External Advisory Committee. The CHW addresses precarious employment across all economic sectors and supports the objectives of the Healthy Work Design and Well-Being cross- sector council and advances Strategic Goal 7 in the NIOSH Priority Goals for Extramural Research. Our research core uses Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches where researchers and partners work together to understand and address a complex topic and focus on social or policy change. This approach is consistent with and advances the goals of r2p.