Creating Shared Perspectives for Worker Well-being: A Community Health-Focused Certificate in Total Worker Health®
1From the Utah Center for Promotion of Work Equity Research, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (C.S., E.A.); and Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (C.S., E.A.).
Objectives:
This study aimed to highlight the utility of a new certificate program in Total Worker Health ® (TWH) designed for health professionals in other community health settings (OCHS).
Methods:
Stakeholder needs assessment, priority setting, and comparison with existing core competencies in TWH approaches were performed to identify learning objectives and curricular threads in alignment with adult learning principles. Faculty-student pairings were conducted for content and assessment development.
Results:
A free six-module training course that prepares OCHS professionals to collaborate with occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals.
Conclusions:
TWH can be advanced through collaboration between OSH and OCHS professionals. In service of shared ground, OCHS professionals should articulate the influence of work on health, TWH principles, and OSH vocabulary and concepts. Such training is a necessary step toward facilitating groups for the benefit of all work and workers.
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