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Titel der Veröffentlichung: Precision Health im betrieblichen Gesundheits­management

Precision Health in Occupational Health and Safety

A literature search and recommendations for action

Objectives:
Findings from related areas indicate that “precision health”
offers numerous advantages and benefits for action in occupational health and safety practices as well. However, so far only few studies from the workplace can be explicitly assigned to “precision health”, which seems surprising given the high degree of innovation in workplace health promotion programs (WHPPs). Therefore, this scoping review aims to present health interventions from WHPPs that follow the “precision health” approach and to derive recommendations for action.

Methods:
Several international databases were systematically searched for studies on health interventions at the workplace and “precision health” (publication period: 2010–2023).

Results:
A total of 70 studies reported on WHPPs which implemented the “precision health” approach. Most of the studies addressed healthcare workers, whereas e.g. construction workers were the least targeted. In addition, most interventions focus on health-related behaviours such as physical activity/sedentariness. The majority of the studies implemented “precision health” in personalized training or learning programmes. This personalization was almost always based on a single data collection point, while machine learning has hardly been used in WHPPs as yet.

Conclusions:
The included studies show that “precision health” to some degree already implemented in WHPPs. Nevertheless, occupational health and safety experts should transfer these implementations to WHPPs in other occupational groups (e. g. the service or construction sector) and areas of prevention (e. g. mental health or work-related factors). In addition, existing data could be analysed by machine learning to directly support employers, occupational health and safety officers and employees through person-oriented feedback.