Archive for May, 2010

Improving Worker Health – the WorkLife Way! Dr. Casey Chosewood Explains.

Posted on May 27th, 2010 by by admin

Dr. Casey Chosewood, Senior Medical Officer for NIOSH’s WorkLife Initiative, joined the show to share details on this new government endeavor.  Casey explained that the goal of the WorkLife program is to sustain and improve worker health through better work-based programs, policies, and practices.  As a result, NIOSH has funded three Centers of Excellence to [...]

Quality Improvement Equals Health Improvement. Dr. Craig Becker and Dr. Mary Glascoff Explain!

Posted on May 12th, 2010 by by admin

This week’s guests, Dr. Craig Becker and and Dr. Mary Glascoff, are professors in Health Education and Promotion at East Carolina University.  Both have authored and lectured on the concepts of positive health and salutogenesis.  In doing so, they are able to effectively demonstrate how to apply health promotion methods to the Quality Improvement System [...]