From the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace (Dr Punnett, Dr Warren, Dr Henning, Ms Nobrega, and Dr Cherniack), Lowell, Mass; University of Massachusetts Lowell (Dr Punnett, Ms Nobrega), Lowell, Mass; University of Connecticut Health Center (Dr Warren, Dr Cherniack), Farmington, Conn; and University of Connecticut (Dr Henning), Storrs, Conn.
J Occup Environ Med. 2013 Dec;55(12 Suppl):S19-24. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000040.
To describe the value of participatory methods for achieving successful workplace health promotion (WHP) programming, and specifically the relevance of participatory ergonomics (PE) for the Total Worker Health (TWH) initiative.
We review the concept of macroergonomics, and how PE is embedded within that framework, and its utility to modern WHP approaches such as "social health promotion." We illustrate these constructs in practice within TWH.
Participatory ergonomics is relevant to WHP because (1) psychosocial stress contributes to individual health behaviors as well as chronic diseases; (2) job stress cannot be addressed without employee involvement in hazard identification and solutions; (3) the interaction of multiple levels within an organization requires attention to needs and constraints at all levels, just as the social-ecological model addresses higher-level determinants of and constraints on individual behaviors.
描述参与式方法在实现成功的工作场所健康促进(WHP)规划方面的价值,特别是参与式人体工程学(PE)在全面工人健康(TWH)计划中的相关性。
我们回顾了宏观人体工程学的概念,以及 PE 如何嵌入该框架及其对现代 WHP 方法(如“社会健康促进”)的实用性。我们在 TWH 中实际说明了这些结构。
参与式人体工程学与 WHP 相关,原因是(1)心理社会压力会影响个人的健康行为和慢性疾病;(2)如果员工不参与危害识别和解决方案,就无法解决工作压力问题;(3)组织内多个层次的相互作用需要关注所有层次的需求和限制,就像社会生态模型解决个人行为的更高层次决定因素和限制一样。