Health promotion in the working world
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Health promotion in the working world
Springer-Verlag, c1989
- U.S. : alk. paper
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"Papers from an international conference organised by the Federal Centre for Health Education, a WHO-Collaborating Centre for Health Education, on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Youth, Family, Affert Women and Health ... October, 1985, in Cologne"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-249)
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Description
Rosmarie Erben The International Conference on "Health Promotion in the Working World" was organized by the Federal Centre for Health Education, Col ogne, in collaboration with the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization, Copenhagen. It was held 7-9 October 1985 in Col ogne, in the Federal Republic of Germany, and brought together 65 partici pants from 12 European countries and Canada. The major role of the working world with regard to the development, maintenance and modification of both individual and collective health-con ducive lifestyles is gaining increasing attention. In addition to the physical and biochemical risks which are the traditional concern of preventive health care, the manifold effects of stress at work and of psychosocial variables have now become the focus of interest. This shift was stimulated by the findings of socioepidemiological research on the relationship between health and lifestyles. The promotion of health at the workplace, including health-conducive lifestyles, is now seen as a necessary complement to measures aimed at reducing or eliminating occupational risks as well as risk behaviour.
Table of Contents
I A Conceptual Framework.- Introductory Remarks.- Health Promotion: A New Approach at the Workplace.- Approaches to Holistic Health Promotion at the Workplace.- Lifestyle, Stress and Work: Strategies for Health Promotion.- Participation: Three Major Obstacles.- Workers' Participation: A Key to Health Promotion at the Workplace.- II Stress and Stressors.- Introductory Remarks.- What is Stress?.- The Six Major Sources of Stress at Work.- New Stressors.- Noise: A Leading Cause of Stress.- Stress and Illness: What Relationship?.- Stress: A Holistic Approach Is Needed.- III Coping and Managing Stress.- Introductory Remarks.- A. At the Personal Level.- Resources: A Major Asset in Coping with Stressors.- Risk Behaviours as Stress-Coping Strategies: Implications for Intervention.- How Women Office Workers Deal with Stress.- Self-expression - An Antidote to Stress.- B. At the Company Level.- Four Major Approaches to Wellbeing.- Efforts Must Be Multidimensional.- Social Support Through Company Doctors: Is It Possible?.- Managing Stress in the Workplace.- IV Approaches to Health Promotion at the Workplace.- Introductory Remarks.- Experiences of Success.- A Parcourse for Health Promotion Programs in the Workplace.- Activation at the Workplace Through Educational Processes.- An Action-Oriented Project in the Timber Industry.- A Place Where You Like to Work: Colonia.- Health Promotion Through Courses on "Slimming - But Sensibly".- Research into the Feasibility and Impact of Health Promotion in the Work Setting.- Health Circles in a Steel Plant Prove an Effective Approach.- V Shaping Our Future.- Introductory Remarks.- Scenarios for Lifestyles and Health.- Twenty-one Possible Futures.- New Strategies for Health Promotion in the Working World.- Some Concluding Remarks.- References.
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