Multiple Domains

Determine how to integrate diverse indicators of burden. Develop qualitative descriptions of burden and determine how to integrate them with quantitative assessments. Determine to what extent family economic and health status are related to risk and occurrence of injury at work. Identify how worker disease, injury, or distress affects productivity of an enterprise. Identify new sources of surveillance data to support burden determinations. Identify the cross-generational impact of adverse work effects.

Broader View of Work-Relatedness

Identify mechanisms of interactions of occupational and personal risk factors. Study how to attribute occupational and work-related hazards to adverse effects. Determine how work may affect the incidence and severity of chronic disease. Characterize the role of work in affecting the impact of personal risk factors. Determine what approaches are useful for considering the role of work in conjunction with other factors that adversely affect worker health. Identify sources of information for adverse effects in work-related conditions.

Entire Working-Life Continuum

Determine if the adverse effects of underemployment and unemployment are cumulative. Investigate the use of a dynamic model of how a person’s labor market exposures are shaped by social contexts in working life. Identify how to operationalize precariousness in employment studies. Determine the extent of risk of adverse effects to workers from nonstandard work arrangements. Identify how to effectively communicate the burden of adverse effects in the working-life continuum to influence decision-makers. Examine how to develop burden indicators of distress. Broaden the understanding of the working-life continuum in the occupational safety and health field.

Well-Being as an Indicator

Identify major determinants of well-being. Determine how well-being can be assessed across groups and times. Determine how occupational health practitioners could influence formation of well-paying jobs for workers. Determine whether traditional quantitative risk assessment methods are useful in assessing well-being in an occupational setting. Identify factors that promote well-being in workers. Determine how best to operationalize well-being for use in burden and other research assessments. Identify how to integrate various sources of well-being data.