scholarly journals Do workplace health-promotion interventions targeting employees with poor health reduce sick-leave probability and disability rates?

2020 ◽  
pp. 140349482094654
Author(s):  
Roy A. Nielsen ◽  
Tove I. Midtsundstad
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Sick Leave ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Sickness Absence ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Disability Pension ◽  
Workplace Health Promotion ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
Health Promotion Interventions

Aims: This study aimed to investigate whether introducing workplace health-promotion interventions targeting employees with health problems or reduced work ability affected overall sick leave and disability risk. Methods: The study population comprised data from an establishment survey from 2010 identifying who had introduced workplace health promotion (the intervention) linked to register data on all employees and their sickness absence and disability pension uptake from 2000 through 2010. Results: Interventions had moderate effects due to varying efficacy in different parts of the labour market. Intervention success was more likely among white-collar workers (e.g. in public administration) compared to blue-collar workers (e.g. in manufacturing), probably due to variations in both organisational and technological constraints. Effects were small among men and moderate among older workers, particularly among women. Overall, disability risk reduction was accompanied by an increase in sickness absence. Sometimes, sickness absence increased in groups with no change in disability risk, suggesting that presenteeism in one group may increase absenteeism in other groups. Conclusions: Introducing workplace health-promotion interventions may prolong work careers in some labour-market segments. Financial incentives for Norwegian establishments to continue offering workplace health-promotion interventions may be improved, given the current financial model for disability pension and sickness benefits.

scholarly journals Truckies and the Australian transport industry: Managers’ perspectives about enablers and inhibitors to workplace health promotion

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Marguerite C. Sendall ◽  
Alison Brodie ◽  
Laura K. McCosker ◽  
Phil Crane ◽  
Marylou Fleming ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Workplace Health Promotion ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Transport Industry ◽  
Health Promotion Interventions

BACKGROUND: There is little published research about managers’ views on implementing and embedding workplace health promotion interventions. OBJECTIVE: To shed light on research-to-practice challenges in implementing workplace health promotion interventions in the Australian road transport industry. METHODS: In this Participatory Action Research project, managers from small-to-midsized companies in the Australian road transport industry were asked their views about enablers and barriers to implementing nutrition and physical activity interventions in their workplace. RESULTS: Managers identified practical assistance with resources, ideas, and staffing as being key enablers to implementation. Barriers included time restraints, worker age and lack of interest, and workplace issues relating to costs and resources. CONCLUSION: Manager perspectives add new insights about successful implementation of workplace health promotion. A Participatory Action Research approach allows managers to develop their own ideas for adapting interventions to suit their workplace. These findings add to a small body of knowledge of managers’ views about implementing workplace health promotion in small-to-midsized road transport companies - a relatively unexplored group. Managers highlight the importance of time constraints and worker availability when designing interventions for the road transport industry. Managers require a good understanding of the workplaces’ socio-cultural context for successful health promotion and health behaviour change.

scholarly journals Worksite Health Promotion for Low-Wage Workers: A Scoping Literature Review

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Stiehl ◽  
Namrata Shivaprakash ◽  
Esther Thatcher ◽  
India J. Ornelas ◽  
Shawn Kneipp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Workplace Health Promotion ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
The United States ◽  
Worksite Health Promotion ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
Health Promotion Programs ◽  
Scoping Literature Review ◽  
Worksite Health ◽  
Health Promotion Interventions

Objective: To determine: (1) What research has been done on health promotion interventions for low-wage workers and (2) what factors are associated with effective low-wage workers’ health promotion programs. Data Source: This review includes articles from PubMed and PsychINFO published in or before July 2016. Study Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria: The search yielded 130 unique articles, 35 met the inclusion criteria: (1) being conducted in the United States, (2) including an intervention or empirical data around health promotion among adult low-wage workers, and (3) measuring changes in low-wage worker health. Data Extraction: Central features of the selected studies were extracted, including the theoretical foundation; study design; health promotion intervention content and delivery format; intervention-targeted outcomes; sample characteristics; and work, occupational, and industry characteristics. Data Analysis: Consistent with a scoping review, we used a descriptive, content analysis approach to analyze extracted data. All authors agreed upon emergent themes and 2 authors independently coded data extracted from each article. Results: The results suggest that the research on low-wage workers’ health promotion is limited, but increasing, and that low-wage workers have limited access to and utilization of worksite health promotion programs. Conclusion: Workplace health promotion programs could have a positive effect on low-wage workers, but more work is needed to understand how to expand access, what drives participation, and which delivery mechanisms are most effective.

Women‐centred workplace health promotion interventions: a systematic review

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Jiménez‐Mérida ◽  
M. Romero‐Saldaña ◽  
R. Molina‐Luque ◽  
G. Molina‐Recio ◽  
A. Meneses‐Monroy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Workplace Health Promotion ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
Health Promotion Interventions

scholarly journals Gender and evolutionary theory in workplace health promotion

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (8) ◽  
pp. 893-905
Author(s):  
Erika Björklund ◽  
Jan Wright
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Workplace Health Promotion ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
Evolutionary Theories ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Health Promotion Interventions ◽  
Health Promotion Practice

Objective: Ideas from evolutionary theories are increasingly taken up in health promotion. This article seeks to demonstrate how such a trend has the potential to embed essentialist and limiting stereotypes of women and men in health promotion practice. Design: We draw on material gathered for a larger ethnographic study that examined how discourses of health were re-contextualised in four workplace health promotion interventions in Sweden. Method: This study provided the opportunity to investigate how ideas derived from evolutionary theories produced particular constructs of the healthy employee. A Foucauldian notion of governmentality was used to examine the rationalities, truths and techniques that informed what we have called a ‘Stone Age’ discourse as these contributed to shaping the desires, actions and beliefs of lecturers and participants in the interventions. Results: We focus on one intervention which used the Stone Age discourse as an organising idea to constitute differences in women’s and men’s health through references to women as gatherers and men as hunters, thereby positioning men as the physical, emotional and mental ideal and women as the problematic and lacking ‘other’. Conclusion: The paper concludes by discussing the implications of such ideas about health and gender for interventions aimed at changing behaviour and lifestyles.

scholarly journals Obstacles and Perspectives. Considerations on Health Promotion Activities Performed for Older Workers in Europe

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Magnavita
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Intervention Studies ◽  
Workplace Health Promotion ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Workplace Health

The ageing of workers is one of the most important issues for occupational health and safety in Europe. A number of intervention studies on health promotion for older workers were conducted in European workplaces between 2000 and 2015. This review gives an overview of these studies and considers perspectives for workplace health promotion.

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