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Filter by:Americans who work outdoors are exposed to an extreme amount of solar ultraviolet radiation over a lifetime that substantially increases their risk for developing skin cancer. In Phase I, the feasibility of a virtual learning environment (VLE) for distributing the effective Sun Safe Workplaces (SSW) intervention to American employers will be established with input from senior managers and Hispanic and African American outdoor workers and development and evaluation of a prototype of the SSW Works VLE. In Phase II, the full SSW Works will be produced and tested for effectiveness at improving outdoor workers' sun protection in a randomized trial enrolling employers nationwide.
The Norwegian Sickness Absence Clinic (NSAC) Nudge Study is a naturalistic randomized controlled multicentre trial which aim is to measure the efficacy of nudging clinicians' attention towards patients' motivation for work, barriers for return to work and work environment challenges, on functional recovery as primary outcome, and health outcomes as secondary outcome. Patients will be recruited in five different NSACs across northern Norway. In total 1100 patients will be randomized to two equal probability treatment arms: 1) NSAC with the nudge, and 2) NSAC without the nudge. The nudge is tailored to the individual patient's needs using survey, and the clinicians are presented with a summary of this patient survey prior to consultations highlighting health problems and challenges as reported by the patient in the survey.
Due to demographic changes across Europe there are strong political interests in maintaining the labour force by prolonging working life, i.e. increasing retirement age. The present study investigates push and stay mechanisms for labor market attachment among older (+50 yrs) workers or people who have recently retired.
Exposure to sedentary work is an occupational hazard with significant health and safety consequences. Sedentary behavior is an independent predictor of heart disease, diabetes, early mortality, and accounts for the majority of the increase in obesity in the US. Prolonged sitting, common in modern sedentary work environments, contributes to increases in musculoskeletal pain, injuries, and detrimental changes in physiological functioning. Call center employees, who are among the most sedentary workers in the US, area priority population for Total Worker Health interventions. This project is designed to substantially improve health, safety, and well-being in call center employees, including physiological outcomes that contribute to chronic diseases.The study tests whether a Total Worker Health oriented intervention is more effective than usual practices for increasing the utilization of health and safety resources and improving worker health and safety. Study results will have implications for over 30 million sedentary workers in the US.
In this intervention study, the investigators engage Vietnamese American nail salon owners to train workers within their salons on how to reduce workplace chemical exposures. The long-term goal of the study is to reduce toxic chemical exposures in nail salons and promote worker health and safety in this vulnerable worker population.
Study for Promotion of Health in Recycling Lead (SPHERL) is a prospective 2-year follow-up study of lead workers with exposure levels varying between and within individuals. SPHERL addresses to what extent between-subject differences or within-subject changes in lead exposure may have a measurable impact on blood pressure, the cardiovascular system, renal function, the autonomic nervous system, peripheral nervous conduction velocity, and neurocognitive function. At the beginning of December 2015, 70 participants were included in the study.