Workplace health promotion

Workplace health promotion is the combined efforts of employers, employees, and society to improve the mental and physical health and well-being of people at work.^[1] The term workplace health promotion denotes a comprehensive analysis and design of human and organizational work levels with the strategic aim of developing and improving health resources in an enterprise. The World Health Organization has prioritized the workplace as a setting for health promotion because of the large potential audience and influence on all spheres of a person's life.^[2] The Luxembourg Declaration provides that health and well-being of employees at work can be achieved through a combination of:

Improving the organization and the working environment
Promoting active participation
Encouraging personal development.^[1]

Workplace health promotion combines alleviation of health risk factors with enhancement of health strengthening factors and seeks to further develop protection factors and health potentials.^[1]^[3] Workplace health promotion is complementary to the discipline of occupational safety and health, which consists of protecting workers from hazards. Successful workplace health promotion strategies include the principles of participation, project management, integration, and comprehensiveness:

Participation: all staff must be included in all program stages
Project management: programs must be oriented toward the problem-solving cycle
Integration: programs must be incorporated into company management practices and workplace health-promotion strategies should influence corporate planning
Comprehensiveness: programs must incorporate interdisciplinary individual-directed and environment-directed health strategies.^[4]

A report by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work notes growing evidence that significant cost savings can be made by implementing workplace health promotion strategies, and over 90% of United States workplaces with greater than 50 employees have health promotion programs in place.^[5]^[6]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Luxembourg Declaration on Workplace health promotion in the European Union" (PDF). January 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-10-08.
^ "Workplace health promotion". WHO. Archived from the original on October 23, 2004.
^ Burton J (2010). WHO Healthy workplace framework and model: Background and supporting literature and practices (PDF). World Health Organization. ISBN 978-92-4-150024-1.
^ Chu C, Breucker G, Harris N, Stitzel A, Gan X, Gu X, Dwyer S (June 2000). "Health-promoting workplaces—international settings development". Health Promotion International. 15 (2): 155–67. doi:10.1093/heapro/15.2.155. hdl:10072/3373.
^ Hassard, J (2012). "Motivation for employers to carry out workplace health promotion." European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
^ Aldana SG (2001). "Financial impact of health promotion programs: a comprehensive review of the literature". American Journal of Health Promotion. 15 (5): 296–320. doi:10.4278/0890-1171-15.5.296. PMID 11502012. S2CID 46879290.

[lux-1] "Luxembourg Declaration on Workplace health promotion in the European Union" (PDF). January 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-10-08.

[who-2] "Workplace health promotion". WHO. Archived from the original on October 23, 2004.

[Burton_2010-3] Burton J (2010). WHO Healthy workplace framework and model: Background and supporting literature and practices (PDF). World Health Organization. ISBN 978-92-4-150024-1.

[Chu,_C-4] Chu C, Breucker G, Harris N, Stitzel A, Gan X, Gu X, Dwyer S (June 2000). "Health-promoting workplaces—international settings development". Health Promotion International. 15 (2): 155–67. doi:10.1093/heapro/15.2.155. hdl:10072/3373.

[5] Hassard, J (2012). "Motivation for employers to carry out workplace health promotion." European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. Retrieved 9 February 2016.

[Aldana_2001-6] Aldana SG (2001). "Financial impact of health promotion programs: a comprehensive review of the literature". American Journal of Health Promotion. 15 (5): 296–320. doi:10.4278/0890-1171-15.5.296. PMID 11502012. S2CID 46879290.

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