Health-Promoting Workplaces

Law, Vincent

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-2521-6_8

Cited by 2 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 87 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…7 Healthy workplaces arise from a combination of occupational health and safety efforts (preventing occupational injuries), acting on concerns in the psycho-social work environment perspective (including organization structure and organizational culture), and providing personal resources to promote better health for the workers, their families and other community members. 8 Workplace health promotion initiatives operate at an individual level-providing workers with resources for their personal health and an environmental level-providing a work setting conducive to and supporting health and well-being. Consequent workplace organizational change may normalize healthy behaviours among staff members and ultimately influence workers' dependants, families, friends, communities and related organizations.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Workplace oral health promotion activities among community‐aged care workers: A qualitative exploration

Bakri,

Ferguson,

Majeed

et al. 2023

Comm Dent Oral Epid

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

BackgroundThe workplace is an ideal—and priority—setting for health promotion activities. Developing and implementing workplace health promotion interventions, including oral health promotion activities, can help create health‐supporting workplace environments.ObjectiveTo pilot workplace oral health promotion activities among staff working in the aged care sector, report their impact and explore participants' views on the factors that contribute to participation and effectiveness.MethodsThis study comprised three phases: (i) the development and face validation of the resources, (ii) a 3‐h educational session and (iii) five interview sessions with participants 4–6 weeks following the education session. The recorded interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed thematically.ResultsEleven community‐aged care workforce were invited to five feedback sessions. Ten participants were female and ranged in age from 18 to 64. All participants gave favourable comments about the content and delivery of the training session and accompanying resources. The participants felt that the benefits of WOHP include improved staff knowledge, awareness and oral care routine, the ability to share (and put into practice) the gained knowledge and information with their dependants, a lower risk of having poor oral health that adversely affects their well‐being and work tasks, and potentially beneficial impacts on the organization's staff roster. Their attendance in the WOHP was facilitated by being paid to attend and scheduling the sessions during work time. Future WOHP suggestions include the possibility of a one‐stop dental check‐up at the workplace or staff dental care discounts from local dental practitioners and combining oral health with other health promotion activities.ConclusionsPlanning and implementing WOHP was deemed acceptable and feasible in this study context and successfully achieved short‐term impacts among community‐aged care workers. Appropriate times and locations, organizational arrangements and a variety of delivery options contributed to successful programme planning and implementation.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%