Interventions to improve employee health and well-being within health care organizations-a systematic review
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Journal Article
Abstract
In response to an increasing body of evidence on the importance of employee health and well-being (HWB) within health care, there has been a shift in focus from both policymakers and individual organizations toward improving health care employee HWB. However, there is something of a paucity of evidence regarding the impact and value of specific HWB interventions within a health care setting. The aim of this article was to systematically review the literature on this topic utilizing the EMBASE, Global Health, Health Management Information Consortium, MEDLINE, and PsycINFO databases. Forty-four articles were identified and, due to a large degree of heterogeneity, were considered under different headings as to the type of intervention employed: namely, those evaluating changing ways of working, physical health promotion, complementary and alternative medicine, and stress management interventions, and those utilizing multimodal interventions. Our results consider both the efficacy and reliability of each intervention in turn and reflect on the importance of careful study design and measure selection when evaluating the impact of HWB interventions.
Date Issued
2018-04-01
Date Acceptance
2017-04-26
Citation
Journal of Healthcare Risk Management, 2018, 37 (4), pp.25-51
ISSN
1074-4797
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
25
End Page
51
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Healthcare Risk Management
Volume
37
Issue
4
Copyright Statement
© 2017 American Society for Healthcare Risk Management of the American Hospital Association. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Williams, S. P., Malik, H. T., Nicolay, C. R., Chaturvedi, S., Darzi, A. and Purkayastha, S. (2017), Interventions to improve employee health and well-being within health care organizations—a systematic review. J of Healthcare Risk Mgmt. , which has been published in final form at https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jhrm.21284. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
Publication Status
Published