1991
DOI: 10.2307/3342500
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Health Promotion versus Health Protection? Employees' Perceptions and Concerns

Abstract: The "second public health revolution" targets factors in the environment, together with lifestyle, to prevent illness and untimely death. Yet the growth of the "wellness movement" has driven a wedge between public health advocates who argue for environmental solutions and those whose major focus is individual behavior. This tension is nowhere more evident than in the workplace, where the new wellness professionals are at odds with specialists in occupational health and industrial hygiene. This paper reports fi… Show more

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“…In addition, the workplace provides opportunities for health promotion. Wellness efforts have been more effective when integrated with improved workplace protection [Walsh et al, 1991;Sorenson et al, 1996Sorenson et al, , 2002. The disproportionate number of cases among HCWs is consistent with reports from other countries [Provencher et al, 1997;Bena et al, 1999;Ross, 1999; McDonald et al, 2000; Esterhuizen et al, 2001; Hnizdo et al, 2001; Kopferschmitt-Kubler et al, 2002], and with the use in health care settings of well documented sensitizers and exposures to agents that cause or exacerbate asthma.…”
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confidence: 70%
“…In addition, the workplace provides opportunities for health promotion. Wellness efforts have been more effective when integrated with improved workplace protection [Walsh et al, 1991;Sorenson et al, 1996Sorenson et al, , 2002. The disproportionate number of cases among HCWs is consistent with reports from other countries [Provencher et al, 1997;Bena et al, 1999;Ross, 1999; McDonald et al, 2000; Esterhuizen et al, 2001; Hnizdo et al, 2001; Kopferschmitt-Kubler et al, 2002], and with the use in health care settings of well documented sensitizers and exposures to agents that cause or exacerbate asthma.…”
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confidence: 70%
“…On the other hand, occupational safety and health programs that ignore personal risk factors -e.g. smoking, diet, physical inactivity -may be underestimating workers' understanding of the complexities of health and well-being [12]. Our study findings lend further evidence of the effectiveness of this integrated approach to promote smoking cessation for blue-collar workers.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 60%
“…Over time, blue-collar workers' rates of smoking have declined more slowly than those of other workers [10], creating a growing gap in smoking between blue-collar and white-collar workers. The high rate of tobacco use among these workers is of particular concern given that blue-collar workers are more likely to be exposed to cancer-causing hazards on the job [11,12], such as silica, combustion products and asbestos, which might also increase the cancer risk associated with smoking [13,14]. Those exposed to workplace hazards are also more likely to be smokers [4], even when gender, race and education are controlled [15].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They are also important for the educational efforts to reach to lots of people who are beyond the limits of other channels. People succeed to stop smoking by means of workplace smoking cessation programs and practices of workplaces without tobacco 3) . The main components of the smoking control efforts in workplaces and the supportive measures to stop smoking are tobacco control policies.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%