Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace

Emerging Topics

CPH News and Views is a semi-monthly column on emerging topics related to healthy workplaces.

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• Issue #31: Reducing Prolonged Sitting in the Workplace: Developing Best Practice
• Issue #30: Training at the workplace improves cleaners’ internal resources for handling demanding work
• Issue #29: Employment and Breastfeeding: Differences by Race or Socio-economic Status
• Issue #28: Understanding and Counteracting the Obesogenic Work Environment
• Issue #27: Job Stress Prevention & Control: Developing Best Practice
• Issue #26: Work-Family Conflict: Current Status and Future Directions
• Issue #25: A national program for worksite health
• Issue #24: Occupational and leisure time physical activity: Do they have similar effects on cardiovascular health?
• Issue #23: Opportunities for Reducing the Burden of Asthma via Workplace Policies and Programs
• Issue #22: Getting employees on board: Factors influencing participation in worksite health promotion programs.
• Issue #21: Working Conditions, Employee Mental Health, and Intention to Leave the Job.
• Issue #20: Juggling work and eldercare responsibilities.
• Issue #19: Improving Self-Care Among Aging Workers with Coronary Heart Disease: A Growing Priority.
• Issue #18: Participatory Teams of Workers Can Strengthen and Broaden the Scope of Health Promotion Programs.
• Issue #17: Enhancing civility at work - with attention to the healthcare sector.
• Issue #16: Working Older: Health Challenges and the Shifting Demographics of Employment.
• Issue #15: Promoting Healthy and Good Tasting Foods.
• Issue #14: How do working conditions affect personal health conditions like smoking, exercise, and being overweight?
• Issue #13: Can ergonomic stressors be reduced for nursing home workers?
• Issue #12: How does sleep quality impact safety and health, especially among shift workers, and what can be done to help?
• Issue #11: Shift Work - Working against our Internal Clocks.
• Issue #10: Workplace violence among healthcare workers.
• Issue #9: How job stress contributes to musculoskeletal disorders: Work organization as the underlying cause.
• Issue #8: How can workplace health promotion professionals address job stress as a modifiable risk factor for heart disease and other chronic diseases?
• Issue #7: The Hazards of Just Standing Around.
• Issue #6: The Healthy Workforce Act of 2007 and Quality Standards for Workplace Health Promotion Programs.
• Issue #5: Economic Evaluation of Workplace Interventions to Reduce Occupational Morbidity.
• Issue #4: How to increase physical activity at the workplace.
• Issue #3: How does job stress contribute to cardiovascular disease, and what can be done to intervene?
• Issue #2: Why is cardiovascular disease a problematic issue for many occupational safety and health investigators
• Issue #1: What is the scientific rationale for workplace programs that combine health promotion with occupational ergonomics?