The document discusses burnout as a global occupational health issue impacting individuals and organizations. It emphasizes that leadership interventions are needed to support employee stress management and improve the psychosocial workplace environment. Effective leadership can help prevent burnout by addressing job demands, providing resources to manage stress, and role modeling positive health behaviors. Interventions focused on these areas may help lower disease prevalence and increase productivity, mental health, and worker well-being.

1. BURNOUT
Public Health Campaign for
Leadership Interventions to
support the Psychosocial
Workplace Environment (PWE).
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2. We are facing a
global occupational
health stress
epidemic
(Mohamad et. al.,
2022).

3. Stress management
is a public health
need and burnout is
impacting the
physiological and
psychosocial
workplace
environment (PWE).

4. The health cost of
burnout impacts the
organization and the
individual as found in
a study of US general
surgery residents
estimated that 43.2%
experienced burnout
weekly (Edú-Valsania,
2022).
.

5. Global impact on
economy as seen in the
World Health
Organization (WHO) ICD-
11 Mortality Tooling
classifies Burnout as a
syndrome in disease
classification specific to
the occupational context.
(https://www.who.int/ne
ws/item/31-08-2022-icd-
11-mortality-rule-
digitalization-workshop).

6. BURNOUT
IN THE
BODY
Emotional exhaustion
Mental health
Cynacism
Reduced personal achievement
Disease
Insomnia
Anxiety
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7. JOB
DEMAND VS
JOB
RESOURCES
• Long-term chronic stress will be found in the form of
trauma or burnout that impacts the mind, body, and spirit
of the organization and the individual.
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8. WHY LEADERSHIP
INTERVENTIONS?
Demands-Resource Theory that
reflects supervisor and peer
support as a resource to
supporting the job demand and
reflection of resources needed to
support stress management for a
positive PWE (Edú-Valsania, 2022).
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9. WHY LEADERSHIP
INTERVENTIONS?
Leadership responsibility for a
positive PWE is found with
promotion of advancement,
recognition, decision freedom,
and autonomy (Schmitz et.al.,
2019). These positive PWE long-
term effects have shown to
prevent disease and disability and
maintain the health of employees.
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10. WHY LEADERSHIP
INTERVENTIONS?
Leadership behavior used as a
prevention action could
significantly improve mental
health in the workforce (Stuber
et.al., 2021).
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11. WHY LEADERSHIP
INTERVENTIONS?
Stress managing Dis-ese in a
leadership role will provide you
and your employees with
occupational self-efficacy to be
used as a personal resource (Wu
et.al, 2021
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12. LEADERSHIP INTERVENTIONS
Teaching and training employees how
stress managing Burnout to prevent
disease in the body, mind, and spirit of
the workplace will improve the QOL of
the individual and the organization.
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13. LEADERSHIP INTERVENTIONS
The leader that addresses burnout will
have a return on investment in
productivity, mental health,
commitment, and immune health.
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14. LEADERSHIP INTERVENTIONS
The impact will be found for the leader,
team, and customer through
development, reflection, and
interaction with a positive PWE.
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15. LEADERSHIP INTERVENTIONS
The ability for leaders to teach, role
model, and reflect on the mental and
physical health of the PWE will increase
employee morale and attendance, and
lower prevalence for mental or physical
disease in individual health.
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16. LEADERSHIP INTERVENTIONS
The responsibility and interventions of
successful occupational health leaders
today will encompass the role of stress
management in physical, psychosocial,
and cultural role-modeling in the
workplace environment.
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18. A LEADER IS IN CONTROL OF THE PWE
• The impact of our mental and physical health impacts
careers and our teams.
• PWE is a critical component in maximizing work
outcomes for the organization and the individual
(Schmitz et.al., 2019).
• Leadership interventions used as a prevention action
could significantly improve organizational and
behavioral support of mental health in the workforce
(Stuber et.al., 2021).
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