Interventions to improve employee health and well-being within health care organizations: a systematic review.

Stephen P. Williams; Humza T. Malik; Christopher R. Nicolay; Sankalp Chaturvedi; Ara Darzi; Sanjay Purkayastha

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Interventions to improve employee health and well-being within health care organizations: a systematic review.

June 20, 2018

Williams SP, Malik HT, Nicolay CR, et al. J Healthc Risk Manag. 2018;37(4):25-51.

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This systematic review of interventions to increase employee well-being in health care settings identified multiple strategies. Individual-level strategies included physical health promotion, stress management interventions, and complementary and alternative medicine. System-level approaches included changing work practices and implementing multicomponent interventions. Lack of consistent measures and robust evaluation strategy impeded assessment of which strategies were most effective.

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