Promising and Best Practices in Total Worker Health Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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6 Reactors Panel and Discussion
6 Reactors Panel and Discussion
Pages 47-52
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. In this final workshop session, moderated by Glorian Sorensen, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, and Vice President for Faculty Development, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a four-person reactor panel presented their impressions of the day's presentations and identified several additional themes, followed by a brief discussion period.
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She lauded the workshop participants as being leaders in Total Worker Health, noting their corporate support and visionary, committed, and long-tenured program leaders. Even if employer concerns about health care costs were to disappear tomorrow, she said, their interest in safety and wellness would continue, through their interest in business outcomes like absenteeism and presenteeism as well as attracting and keeping healthy workers on the job.
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For an employer's Total Worker Health program to take hold requires that the following preconditions be in place, she said: • Adequate wages, basic health and related benefits, and an effec tive safety program, in order to demonstrate concern for work ers' health and well-being, which can lead to worker buy-in and participation; • Commitment to assessing work environments and processes longer term;
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He also emphasized the importance of the "evisceration" of local public health focused on occupational health and safety. He noted that in the coming year, they will be enlisting community health workers in local health departments to be trained in talking to small businesses about Total Worker Health principles.
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REACTORS PANEL AND DISCUSSION 51 3. The economic imperative, which may turn out to be the most important, if these programs and practices do ultimately connect with good business outcomes.
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