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Education and Training to Build Capacity in Total Worker Health®: Proposed Competencies for an Emerging Field
Lee S Newman1, Joshua G Scott, Adele Childress
1Center for Health, Work & Environment (Dr Newman); Department of Environmental and Occupational Health (Dr Newman, Dr Scott, Ms Tenney); Department of Epidemiology (Dr Newman), Colorado School of Public Health; Department of Medicine (Dr Newman), Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado; 2U, Inc, Lanham, Maryland (Dr Scott); Office of the Director, Office for Total Worker Health, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia (Dr Childress, Dr Newhall); University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Dr Linnan, Dr Rogers); Center for Community-Based Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr McLellan); Center for Work, Health, and Well-Being, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr McLellan); Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (Dr Campo, Dr Rohlman); Department of Community and Behavioral Health, College of Public Health, University of Iowa (Dr Campo); Safe and Healthy Workplace Center, SAIF, Salem, Oregon (Ms Freewynn); Oregon Healthy Workplace Center, Oregon Health & Science University (Dr Hammer), Portland, Oregon; Carolina Collaborative for Research on Work and Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Ms Leff); Center for Environmental and Workplace Health, Department of Public Health, College of Health & Human Services, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky (Dr Macy, Dr Watkins); Office of the Director, Office of Extramural Program, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia (Dr Maples); North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health and Education and Research Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Dr Rogers); Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Dr Rogers), Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Department of Occupational and Environmental Health (Dr Rohlman), College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
Objective:
Establishment of core competencies for education and training of professionals entering the emerging field of Total Worker Health®.
Methods:
Compilation and distillation of information obtained over a 5-year period from Total Worker Health symposia, workshops, and academic offerings, plus contributions from key stakeholders regarding education and training needs.
Results:
A proposed set of Total Worker Health competencies aligns under six broad domains: Subject Matter Expertize; Advocacy and Engagement; Program Planning, Implementation and Evaluation; Communications and Dissemination; Leadership and Management; and Partnership Building and Coordination.
Conclusions:
Proposed set of core competencies will help standardize education and training for professionals being trained in Total Worker Health. It serves as an invitation for further input from stakeholders in academia, business, labor, and government.
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