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Health Educators in the Workplace: Helping Companies Respond to the AIDS Crisis

Laurie J. Bauman, PhD

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Department of Social Work

John Aberth, BA

American Management Association, Briefings and Surveys Division

As the number of cases of AIDS increases, more and more companies will have to decide how to handle employees with AIDS and those at high risk. AIDS creates medi cal, legal, and ethical issues in the workplace, all of which are emotional and complex; managers need expert assistance to guide their decision-making and policy develop ment.

This article identifies various dimensions of the AIDS-related issues emerging in corporations nationwide, including: confidentiality, the right of patients to work, ben efits and insurance, HTLV-III screening, fears of contagion among workers, needs of companies to avoid financial and legal exposure, and effects on worker productivity. Health educators are in a unique position to contribute to the satisfactory resolution of AIDS-related problems in the workplace through their training and experience in education, policy development and the relevant legal and ethical issues in the health care field. However, they will have to initiate discussions with corporation executives themselves in order to reach this most important audience.

Health Education & Behavior, Vol. 13, No. 4, 395-406 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/109019818601300410
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