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October 26-28, 2004
Washington D.C.
Cafritz Conference Center
(on the campus of George Washington University)
800 21st Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20052 |
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The Cafritz Conference Center is located on the third floor
of the Marvin Center. The main entrance is located on 21st Street
between H and I Streets.
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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and co-sponsors
will convene a three-day Symposium to launch a new initiative, "Steps
to a Healthier US Workforce," aimed at integrating individual
worker health and healthy lifestyle promotion with our mission of
protecting and improving working conditions and the work environment.
The symposium will be held at the Cafritz Center on the campus of
George Washington University in Washington, DC on October 26-28,
2004. The initiative recognizes the shared goals of workers, their
families, and their employers to protect, preserve, and improve
the health of people who work. We believe these goals can be optimized
by bringing together the health promotion and occupational safety
and health communities in a combined effort to highlight common
interests and develop mutually supportive strategies for research
and practice to improve worker health, safety, and well-being.
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The symposium will:
- Provide an opportunity for researchers, policymakers, practitioners,
and industry and labor leaders to share their experiences with
integrated and coordinated programs, identify ways to reduce
the separation in the communities, and point to future directions
for relevant research and improved practice;
- Explore economic issues related to the interrelationships
between work, health, health care needs, and productivity, and
the impact of improved and integrated approaches to health promotion
and health protection;
- Assess the scientific basis for integrative approaches and
establish a research agenda in this area; and
- Highlight successful programs, practices, and policies of
protection and promotion resulting in improved health for people
who work.
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