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Nursing Home Employee and Resident Satisfaction and Resident Care Outcomes

Safety and Health at Work, 2018
Background: Nursing home resident care is an ongoing topic of public discussion, and there is great interest in improving the quality of resident care. This study investigated the association between nursing home employees' job satisfaction and residents'
Bora Plaku-Alakbarova, Laura Punnett, Rebecca J. Gore   +2 more
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Workplace health promotion and employee health in municipal social care organizations [PDF]

, 2015
Background: People working in social care constitute the largest occupational group in Sweden and they have the highest prevalence of sickness absence.
Ljungblad, Cecilia
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Prioritizing Workplace Health Promotion Policy to Address High Blood Pressure and Obesity in a Public University in the Northern Region of Ghana

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2023
The International Labour Organization (ILO) recommends the engagement of the world of work in providing comprehensive and effective prevention strategy for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).
Edem Kojo Dzantor BSc, MPH, Margaret Kweku MD, MPH, MPhil, PhD, Emmanuel Senanu Komla Morhe MD, MPH, FGCS, FWACS, Samuel Zanya Bugri MD, MSc, FGCP   +3 more
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Health Promotion at the Workplace [PDF]

AAOHN Journal, 1989
Health promotion encompasses those activities undertaken to improve the quality of one's life, thereby moving the individual forward toward a state of wellness or optimal health. Occupational health nurses are in a prime position to impart knowledge and change attitudes and behaviors and thus are uniquely qualified to plan, develop, implement, and ...
C S, Selleck, A T, Sirles, K D, Newman
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Health promotion in medium-sized and large companies in Poland in 2017 – activities, implementation, effects and difficulties

Medycyna Pracy, 2019
Background The paper presents the state of workplace health promotion in Poland as of December 2017. Material and Methods Standardized computer-assisted personal interviews (CAPI) were conducted on a representative sample of 1000 companies employing ...
Krzysztof Puchalski, Elżbieta Korzeniowska   +1 more
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Motivation for employers to carry out workplace health promotion: literature review [PDF]

, 2012
Workplace health promotion (WHP) is the combined efforts of employers, workers and society to improve the health and wellbeing of people at work. This can be achieved by: improving the work organisation and the work environment; promoting the active ...
Cox, T, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work - EU-OSHA, Flaspöler, E, Hassard, J, Kazenas, A, Muylaert, K, Namysł, A, Podniece, Z, Wang, D   +8 more
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Health Behaviors and Overweight in Nursing Home Employees: Contribution of Workplace Stressors and Implications for Worksite Health Promotion

The Scientific World Journal, 2015
Background. Many worksite health promotion programs ignore the potential influence of working conditions on unhealthy behaviors. Methods. A study of nursing home employees (56% nursing aides) utilized a standardized questionnaire.
Helena Miranda, Rebecca J. Gore, Jon Boyer, Suzanne Nobrega, Laura Punnett   +4 more
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The Impact of Workplace Health Promotion Programs Emphasizing Individual Responsibility on Weight Stigma and Discrimination

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Over time, there has been a steady increase of workplace health promotion programs that aim to promote employees' health and fitness. Previous research has focused on such program's effectiveness, cost-savings, and barriers to engaging in workplace ...
Susanne Täuber, Laetitia B. Mulder, Stuart W. Flint   +2 more
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Supporting nurse health champions: developing a 'new generation' of health improvement facilitators [PDF]

, 2011
In efforts to respond to key government public health initiatives for settings-based health promotion, the ‘Workplace Health Champion’ role has emerged as a method of promoting health within the UK healthcare setting.
Blake, Holly, Chambers, D.
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Evaluation of a worksite intervention [PDF]

, 2015
Background Worksite health promotion programs have been identified as strongly effective in decreasing body weight and increasing awareness and change in health behavior. Aim of this study is to determine the effects of a multi- component intervention in
Jahn, Reimo, Jensen, Sarah, Linnig, Stefan, Mache, Stefanie, Ochsmann, Elke, Preuß, Geraldine, Steudtner, Mirco   +6 more
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