Total worker health and work-life stress
Leslie B Hammer1, Steven Sauter
1From the Department of Psychology (Dr Hammer), Portland State University, Portland, Ore; and Department of Psychology (Dr Sauter), Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY.
Objective:
Review relationships between work-life stress and health behaviors to advance understanding of pathways between occupational and individual risk factors and health and safety outcomes.
Methods:
A background on the Total Worker Health concept is provided, and a review of research on the relationship between work-life stress and health behaviors is presented.
Results:
Research evidence indicates that work-life stress serves as a negative occupational exposure relating to poor health behaviors, including smoking, poor food choices, low levels of exercise, and even decreased sleep time.
Conclusion:
The association between work-life stress and adverse health behaviors suggests that interventions at both the occupational (health protection) and individual (health promotion) level may be helpful in mitigating effects of work-life stress, consistent with the Total Worker Health approach. Further study is needed to investigate gains from an integrated prevention strategy.
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