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. (2015) 'The eectiveness of using the workplace to identify and address modiable health risk factors in deprived populations. ', Occupational and environmental medicine., 72 (9). 664-669 . Further information on publisher's website: This article has been accepted for publication in Occupational and Environmental Medicine following peer review. The denitive copyedited, typeset version Abbas, S.Z., Pollard, T.M., Wynn, P., Learmonth, A., Joyce, K. and Bambra, C. (2015) 'The eectiveness of using the workplace to identify and address modiable health risk factors in deprived populations.', Occupational and environmental medicine, 72(9): 664-669 is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2014-102743Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. ABSTRACT ObjectivesTo establish whether a programme of targeted health screening, with referral to appropriate interventions, offered to an employed but socioeconomically deprived group was effective in overcoming barriers to uptake of such services, and improving a range of surrogate health markers for participants. MethodsLow paid local government employees from socially and economically deprived areas in North- ConclusionsThis workplace programme had a positive impact on cardiovascular health, but attendance rates were low. These findings suggest that workplace health screening activities may have 5 the potential to improve health in a group often considered hard to reach by other routes, but do not offer a straightforward solution in overcoming barriers to access for such sub groups within the working population .

This paper gives an overview of evidence-based practice in health promotion, with reference mainly to the National Health Service (NHS) context within the UK, but with wider international relevance. It starts by looking at the tensions raised at the interface of the two activities of research and health promotion. It goes on to explore two aspects of evidence-based practice: incorporating research evidence into health promotion activity and developing robustly evaluated practice in such a way as to feed the developing research agenda. Each of these two aspects is explored using a specific example, from within the UK. Finally, the paper goes on to make eight recommendations that taken together would help create an iterative process contributing to the development of health promotion theory and practice.

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