Integrating Employee Health

The American workforce is changing, creating new challenges for employers to provideoccupational health services to meet the needs of employees. The NationalAeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) workforce is highly skilled and competitiveand employees frequently work under intense pressure to ensure mission success.The Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA requested that theInstitute of Medicine review its occupational health programs, assess employee awarenessof and attitude toward those programs, recommend options for future worksitepreventive health programs, and ways to evaluate their effectiveness. The committee'sfindings show that although NASA has a history of being forward-looking in designingand improving health and wellness programs, there is a need to move from atraditional occupational health model to an integrated, employee-centered programthat could serve as a national model for both public and private employers to emulateand improve the health and performance of their workforces.Table of ContentsFront MatterExecutive Summary1 The NASA Worksite2 Occupational and Preventative Health at NASA3 Workforce Health, Performance, Readiness, Resilience: The Case for Change4 Organizing and Managing Employee Integrated Health Programs and Policies5 Implementing Integrated Health Programs6 Data Integration and Health ManagementAppendix A: Glossary of Terms and AbbreviationsAppendix B: Open Session and Workshop AgendasAppendix C: Committee Member Biographical Sketches