title: Total worker health and work-life stress.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Review relationships between work-life stress and health behaviors to advance understanding of pathways between occupational and individual risk factors and health and safety outcomes.
  
  
  METHODS
  A background on the Total Worker Health concept is provided, and a review of research on the relationship between work-life stress and health behaviors is presented.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Research evidence indicates that work-life stress serves as a negative occupational exposure relating to poor health behaviors, including smoking, poor food choices, low levels of exercise, and even decreased sleep time.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The association between work-life stress and adverse health behaviors suggests that interventions at both the occupational (health protection) and individual (health promotion) level may be helpful in mitigating effects of work-life stress, consistent with the Total Worker Health approach. Further study is needed to investigate gains from an integrated prevention strategy.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Psychology (Dr Hammer), Portland State University, Portland, Ore; and Department of Psychology (Dr Sauter), Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY.
authors.forename: Leslie B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Hammer
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sauter
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology