Correctional Workplace Health, Safety, and Well-Being: Evidence-Based Interventions for Health Promotion
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 3417
Special Issue Editors
Interests: workplace health; work organization; correctional workplace safety; organization interventions
Interests: occupational health; environmental epidemiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Evidence in correctional work health promotion is historically underrepresented. Recent recognition by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics highlights corrections workers as having the highest exposure to nonfatal workplace violence. Morbidity and mortality due to corrections work are significant with established evidence in death by suicide, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and other chronic health conditions. However, the larger social issues affecting corrections work have been largely unexplored. The purpose and role of carceral institutions are slowly evolving from housing people in a punitive way (using force, solitary confinement, and other trauma-inducing activities) to offering rehabilitative, reentry support for community release. The interactions between correctional workers and individuals residing in carceral settings are interrelated and have an impact on both work and community health. Furthermore, the interrelationships in the impact of corrections systems on the local community are understudied. In addition, there is a gap in research exploring workplace stressors related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging among correctional workers.
This Special Issue is focused on research to inform future translation of interventions to evidence-based approaches that reduce corrections work stressors and promote community health. We welcome the submission of manuscripts presenting original basic and/or applied research utilizing holistic strategies such as the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Total Worker Health® that offers evidence for informing intervention design, implementation, and evaluation of potential trauma prevention and health promotion practices in corrections settings. Furthermore, methodological innovations and research approaches addressing carceral system design, policies, practices, peer supports, training, and other interventions are needed. Considerations of future disaster and pandemic preparedness are of interest due to related sequelae including labor shortages, pay insufficiencies, high turnover, social inequities, and facility and environmental concerns, among others that are also experienced in different degrees among other work sectors. This description along with the keywords listed below provide suggestions for potential topics of interest for submission to this Special Issue.
Dr. Lisa A. Jaegers
Prof. Dr. Martin G. Cherniack
Dr. Mazen El Ghaziri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- traumatic stress
- work violence
- workplace health
- work organization
- work stress
- organization interventions
- safety and stress
- work–life continuum
- community health
- intervention, implementation, and evaluation research
- translational and Promising practices
