Publications by authors named "Allan Wallis"
Objective: Economic evaluation of an intervention promoting adoption of occupational sun protection actions by Colorado public sector employers.
Methods: Randomized controlled trial with 2-year follow-up conducted during 2010 to 2013. Thirty-three intervention and 30 attention-control worksites in final economic sample.
Background: Outdoor workers experience chronic exposure to harmful ultraviolet radiation (UV) elevating their risk for skin cancer.
Methods: A controlled randomized trial promoted the adoption of workplace sun safety policy and employee education at 98 public organizations in Colorado. A 2-year follow-up study with 68 organizations assessed the association of senior manager awareness of sun safety policies and implementation of sun safety actions.
Purpose: Implementation of employer sun safety actions was assessed in a 2-year follow-up to an occupational sun protection policy intervention.
Design: Two-year follow-up assessment in a randomized pretest-posttest controlled design.
Setting: Local government organizations with workers in public safety, public works, and parks and recreation.
Objective: Occupational skin cancer prevention is a priority because outdoor workers are exposed to high levels of ultraviolet radiation, the primary risk factor for skin cancer.
Methods: A 2-year follow-up assessment of the impact of Sun Safe Workplaces (SSW), a workplace sun safety program that promoted policy adoption and education, on employee sun safety behavior was conducted. Sixty-three of 98 local government organizations from the original study participated.
Purpose: To evaluate an intervention promoting adoption of occupational sun protection policies by employers in a randomized trial.
Design: A randomized pretest-posttest controlled design with 2-year follow-up was conducted in 2010 to 2013.
Setting: Local government organizations in Colorado who had outdoor workers in public works, public safety, and/or parks and recreation.
Importance: Skin cancer prevention remains a national priority. Reducing chronic UV radiation exposure for outdoor workers through sun-safety practices is an important step to help reduce the incidence of skin cancer.
Objective: To determine the presence of occupational sun-safety policies at local government organizations in a single state.
Adoption of sun safe workplace practices by local governments.
J Public Health Manag Pract
September 2016
Context: Outdoor workers are especially susceptible to skin cancer--the most common, but also one of the most preventable, forms of cancer. Colorado, the location of the study, has the second highest rate of skin cancer deaths in the nation.
Objective: Local government managers in Colorado-in municipalities, counties, and special districts-were surveyed to ascertain the extent to which they engage in formal (written) and informal practices to protect their outdoor workers against excessive exposure to sun.
Aim: This paper discusses findings from an evaluation of a training programme designed to promote collaborative, team-based approaches to improve nurse retention within health care organizations.
Background: A year-long leadership training programme was designed and implemented to develop effective teams that could address retention challenges in a diverse set of organizations in Colorado ranging from public, private to non-profit.
Evaluation: An evaluation, based on a combination of participant observation, group interviews, and the use of standardized tests measuring individual emotional intelligence and team dynamics was conducted to assess the effectiveness of the training programme.
Learning how to measure the well-being of OVC in a maturing HIV/AIDS crisis.
J Health Care Poor Underserved
April 2010
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa is frequently referred to as a crisis while the principal U.S. program to address it is labeled emergency relief.
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