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T1 - Joint ICOH-WOPS & APA-PFAW global roundtable perspectives
T2 - exploring national policy approaches for psychological health at work through the ‘National Policy Index’ lens
AU - POTTER, Rachael E.
AU - ERTEL, Michael
AU - DOLLARD, Maureen
AU - Leka, Stavroula
AU - JAIN, Aditya
AU - LEROUGE, Loic
AU - HOUTMAN, Irene
AU - AUST, Birgit
AU - CHOI, Won-Jun
AU - CROOKS, Nicholas
AU - FITZGERALD, John
AU - HASSAN, Siti Nurani
AU - KIRK-BROWN, Andrea
AU - MISHIBA, Takenori
AU - SPETCH, Ashley
AU - STOETZER, Ulrich
AU - VAN DIJK, Pieter
PY - 2024/11/26
Y1 - 2024/11/26
N2 - Worker psychological health is a significant global imperative which requires national policy action and stakeholder engagement. While national policy is a critical lever for improving worker psychological health, some countries are more progressive than others in relation to policy development and/or implementation. At the Joint Congress of the International Commission on Occupational Health, Scientific Committee on Work Organization and Psychosocial Factors and the Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors Work in Tokyo (September 2023), a Global Roundtable was designed to initiate international dialogue and knowledge exchange regarding relevant national policy approaches. The Global Roundtable involved experts from diverse regions alongside an engaged audience of congress attendees and facilitators. Qualitative data were analysed against the five components of the National Policy Index tool, comprising policy priority, specific laws, nation-wide initiatives, sector-oriented initiatives, national survey and/or studies. Analysis revealed that while work-related psychological health is a policy priority across many countries, at the same time, there are global gaps in both legislation specificity and active regulation across different countries. For future policy development across countries, it will be beneficial to continue and deepen international discourse and for countries to share their approaches with others.
AB - Worker psychological health is a significant global imperative which requires national policy action and stakeholder engagement. While national policy is a critical lever for improving worker psychological health, some countries are more progressive than others in relation to policy development and/or implementation. At the Joint Congress of the International Commission on Occupational Health, Scientific Committee on Work Organization and Psychosocial Factors and the Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors Work in Tokyo (September 2023), a Global Roundtable was designed to initiate international dialogue and knowledge exchange regarding relevant national policy approaches. The Global Roundtable involved experts from diverse regions alongside an engaged audience of congress attendees and facilitators. Qualitative data were analysed against the five components of the National Policy Index tool, comprising policy priority, specific laws, nation-wide initiatives, sector-oriented initiatives, national survey and/or studies. Analysis revealed that while work-related psychological health is a policy priority across many countries, at the same time, there are global gaps in both legislation specificity and active regulation across different countries. For future policy development across countries, it will be beneficial to continue and deepen international discourse and for countries to share their approaches with others.
U2 - 10.2486/indhealth.2024-0092
DO - 10.2486/indhealth.2024-0092
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 39085135
VL - 62
SP - 353
EP - 366
JO - Industrial Health
JF - Industrial Health
SN - 0019-8366
IS - 6
ER -