This study reviewed the reference of health promotion program and investigated the status of health promotion program at work sites in U.S.A.
Good health promotion program is essential for both employees and employers to reduce morbidity rate, to promote productivity and to enhance quality of life and so on.
Health promotion aimed at modifying unhealthy life-styles by building awareness, knowledge, skills and interpersonal support. And health promotion cycle is resemblance to the plan-do-check-act.
The major contents of this study are briefed following as :
1) Links between life-style, environment, and health
2) Effect of work sites health promotion effort
3) Prevalence and contents of work site health promotion programs
4) Health promotion process
5) Program framework and structure
6) Stages in the health promotion cycle
7) Approaches for modifying organizational stressors
In addition this, the survey was conducted to aim diagnosing the status of health promotion program in work sites in Korea.
The main finding-outs are summarized as follows :
1) In 4 large size work sites, there are working with 1 doctor in all work sites, 1 nurse per 3,000 employees and other health related professionals. They have clinic office(4 work sites), gymnasium(2 work sites), and other many facilities like physical therapy center. And only one company have a wellness clinic center. All employees use to exercise health gymnastics in terms of 5 minutes regularly 2 times in a day.
2) In 4 middle size work sites, there are no doctor, 1 nurse and 1 nutritionist in all work sites. They have also clinic, physical therapy center(1 work site), and all employees exercise health gymnastics regularly 2 times in a day too.
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