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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.

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
|May 15, 2020
PubMed
Summary

This study establishes core competencies for Total Worker Health® (TWH) professionals. The proposed framework standardizes education and training in this growing field.

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