Integrating Employee Health: A Model Program for NASA (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780309096232)

The American workforce is changing, creating new challenges for employers to provide occupational health services to meet the needs of employees. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) workforce is highly skilled and competitive and employees frequently work under intense pressure to ensure mission success. The Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA requested that the Institute of Medicine review its occupational health programs, assess employee awareness of and attitude toward those programs, recommend options for future worksite preventive health programs, and ways to evaluate their effectiveness. The committee's findings show that although NASA has a history of being forward-looking in designing and improving health and wellness programs, there is a need to move from a traditional occupational health model to an integrated, employee-centered program that could serve as a national model for both public and private employers to emulate and improve the health and performance of their workforces.

Author: Institute of Medicine,Food and Nutrition Board,Committee to Assess Worksite Preventive
ISBN-10: 0309096235
ISBN-13: 9780309096232
Publisher: National Academies Press
Language: English
Published: 09/29/2005
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.06w x 0.45d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 12/01/2006 pg. 92