Active and Sitting Time at Work—Evidence for Optimizing Worker Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Exercise and Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 June 2023) | Viewed by 15968
Special Issue Editors
Interests: measurement; sedentary behaviour; physical activity; public health; occupational health
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The way we work is constantly evolving. Increases in the automation of work tasks and computer-based working have largely decreased activity and increased sitting time at work. The recent rise of home-based and hybrid working models with the changes wrought by the pandemic have also altered activity patterns while working. Not all workplaces are trending to lower activity. Many still require heavy labour, repetitive activities and prolonged postures. The health effects of work-related sitting time and physical activity in all its forms, and the enhancements that can be made by changing these, require elucidation to inform workers on what is best for their health and to make recommendations to organisational policy makers. To advance this field we need to be able to measure posture (sitting/standing) and activity at work including the contexts in which they occur, understand which of these contexts and behaviours are important for health, and use this information to intervene to optimize worker health. Finally, changes that have been shown to enhance health should be disseminated to wider occupational settings and then evaluated for success. Papers addressing work sitting and activity measurement, health associations of time spent active and sitting for work, as well as interventions targeting activity and sitting for work health benefit and subsequent dissemination research are invited for this Special Issue, especially those identifying a real-world purpose for the research.
Dr. Bronwyn K. Clark
Dr. Charlotte Brakenridge
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- work
- occupational health
- sitting
- sedentary
- physical activity
- evidence-based
- intervention
- dissemination
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