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Steps To A HealthierUS Workforce

2004 Symposium

 
 

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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.


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.

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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