Progress in Corrections Worker Health: The National Corrections Collaborative Utilizing a Total Worker Health® Strategy

Effectiveness of total worker health interventions.

Total Worker Health (TWH) was introduced and the term was trademarked in 2011 by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to formally signal the expansion of traditional occupational safety and health (OSH) to include wellness and well-being. We searched PubMed, PsycINFO, and other databases using keywords TWH, health promotion, health protection, and variants for artic...

The health of the worker.

The health of the worker must nowadays be considered against a background of improved social conditions, of death rates which have fallen continuously for a century, and of a reduction in communicable diseases. At one time industrial medicine was preoccupied with the direct and demonstrably harmful effects of certain occupations on health (Schilling, 1956). Now that many of these situations hav...

Community Health Worker Programmes

The impact of the National HIV Health Care Worker Hotline.

The impact of the National HIV Health Care Worker Hotline To the Editor: The National HIV Health Care Worker (HCW) Hotline was established in 2008, in collaboration with the Foundation for Professional Development (FPD) and PEPFAR/USAID, to support the safe and effective roll-out of antiretroviral treatment in South Africa. It is based in the Medicines Information Centre, Division of Clinical P...

Health of the Industrial Worker