2nd Edition: Workplace Health and Wellbeing Research and Evaluation
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 269
Special Issue Editor
Interests: public health; health equity; social determinants of health; behavioral sciences; gender; health & long term care; chronic illness
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Dear Colleagues,
Workplace health and wellbeing remain central to advancing health equity and addressing persistent and emerging social inequalities. Since the publication of the original Special Issue, work-related health inequities have continued to intensify amid changing labor conditions, technological shifts, demographic transitions and ongoing global disruptions. These inequities affect workers through experiences and processes such as racialization/discrimination, precarity, job strain, physical impairments, mental distress, chronic illness and disability, while also shaping organisational outcomes (e.g., absenteeism, presenteeism, burnout and workforce retention), compensation and insurance systems (e.g., injury, illness, sickness claims and or litigation) and broader societal and economic structures (e.g., disability supports and productivity).
This 2nd Edition Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) builds on prior contributions and focuses on advancing critical, equity-oriented understandings of the complex relationships between work and health. In particular, we welcome research and scholarship grounded in critical paradigms and social justice–informed approaches to the social determinants of health and critical social theories. Relevant areas include, but are not limited to, analyses of race and racialisation, sex and gender, aging and the life course, disability and chronic illness, ability/disability/ableism, migration and intersecting forms of structural inequity within occupational contexts.
We invite the submission of original research articles, systematic/scoping/narrative/umbrella reviews, meta-analyses, case reports, or conference papers. Contributions that explore innovative or underexamined approaches to prevention, intervention and policy aimed at improving occupational health and well-being are especially encouraged. This includes research examining occupational risk and protective factors, workplace health protection and promotion; injury, illness and disability prevention, screening practices, accommodations and organisational interventions. Experimental, cross-sectional and longitudinal studies addressing mental health and well-being in diverse occupational settings are also welcome.
We look forward to contributions that extend, challenge and deepen existing knowledge and that support more equitable, inclusive and health-promoting workplaces.
Dr. Iffath Syed
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- diversity
- inclusion
- health equity
- long COVID
- critical disability
- workplace disability
- work and health
- occupational health and safety
- public health
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