title: Integration of health protection and health promotion: rationale, indicators, and metrics.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To offer a definition of an "integrated" approach to worker health and operationalize this definition using indicators of the extent to which integrated efforts are implemented in an organization.
  
  
  METHODS
  Guided by the question-How will we know it when we see it?-we reviewed relevant literature to identify available definitions and metrics, and used a modified Delphi process to review and refine indicators and measures of integrated approaches.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A definition of integrated approaches to worker health is proposed and accompanied by indicators and measures that may be used by researchers, employers, and workers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A shared understanding of what is meant by integrated approaches to protect and promote worker health has the potential to improve dialogue among researchers and facilitate the research-to-practice process.
authors.affiliation: From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Drs Sorensen, McLellan, and Allen), Boston, Mass; Harvard School of Public Health (Drs Sorensen, Pronk, Okechukwu, and Wagner), Boston, Mass; Northeastern University (Dr Dennerlein), Boston, Mass; HealthPartners, Inc (Dr Pronk), Minneapolis, Minn; Boston University School of Public Health (Dr Boden), Boston, Mass; Partners HealthCare, Inc (Dr Hashimoto), Boston, Mass; Boston College Law School (Dr Hashimoto), Newton Centre, Mass; New England Research Institutes (Dr Stoddard), Watertown, Mass; and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Dr Wagner), Washington, DC.
authors.forename: Glorian
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sorensen
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: McLellan
authors.forename: Jack T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Dennerlein
authors.forename: Nicolaas P
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Pronk
authors.forename: Jennifer D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: Leslie I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Boden
authors.forename: Cassandra A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Okechukwu
authors.forename: Dean
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stoddard
authors.forename: Gregory R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Wagner
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016272:Occupational Health; D060051:Occupational Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016134:Organizational Policy; D012941:Social Responsibility