Workplace Health Promotion

1. Workplace Health Promotion Chapter 4.

2. Content • Advance organizer • Definitions • Background to workplace health promotion • The European Reference Model for Workplace Health Promotion

3. Case study – The FAG Hospital • Introduction in the case-study • Situation description • Staff data • Workplace characteristics

4. An Ecological Model of Health

5. Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion • The Charter for Health Promotion which was adopted in Ottawa in 1986 identified five health promotion action areas: • build Healthy Public Policy, • create supportive environments, • develop personal skills, • strengthen community action, • reorient health services

6. Luxemburg Declaration document (2005) Definition of WHP Workplace health promotion (WHP) is the combined efforts of employers, employees and society to improve the health and wellbeing of people at work. • This is achieved through a combination of: • improving the work organization and working environment; • promoting the participation of workers in the whole process of WHP; • enabling healthy choices, • encouraging personal development

7. Health promoting organizations have major advantages • Development and better quality of human resources • Financial savings • Improved internal social relations • Creation of a positive social image • Support for marketing activities

8. Implementing WHP Programs - accomplished with simple, low-cost strategies • Provide incentives for participation. • Establish a wellness informational campaign. • Schedule wellness seminars on diabetes, nutrition, physical fitness and cholesterol, etc. • Establish initiatives such as fitness, sleep diary, tobacco use cessation and injury prevention. • Provide onsite chair massages or simple stretching exercises to do at the desk. • Change vending machine options to offer healthier, low-fat snacks and drinks. • Actively promote employee participation in all Workplace Health Promotion Program

9. Implementation, WHP characteristics • It is health linked activity, which is NOT legal obligation • It is voluntary activity for employers and employees • It is about workplace health activity, based on • Risks • Needs • Preferences

10. The European Reference Model for Workplace Health Promotion The generic environment for WHP

11. The European Reference Model for WHP - Scope • Promote good practices of WHP, in according with the European reference model • It is an action model for practitioners • To inform practitioners about field policies

12. The European Reference Model for Workplace Health Promotion Main Elements: • The process • Actors and actions • Enabling and constraining factors • Outcomes

13. General model of workplace health promotion

14. The principal actors and actions in the WHP implementation process

15. Enabling and constraining factors for WHP

16. Outcomes of WHP implementation

17. Conclusions • WHP in Europe has been a relatively recent phenomenon, but in its short history it has developed a strong record of practice and achievement. • It faces difficulties of acceptance because it does not have a statutory basis, but in many countries it is seen as a significant part of workplace health management.

18. WHP Program Pictures, Romania