Purpose: This study attempted to access the health promotion activities and employee's health promotion needs in workplaces. Methods: Subjects were 280 health care managers employed at small to large scale enterprises in national-wide areas of Korea, ...
Purpose: This study attempted to access the health promotion activities and employee's health promotion needs in workplaces. Methods: Subjects were 280 health care managers employed at small to large scale enterprises in national-wide areas of Korea, The instrument was a structured questionnaire included characteristics of workplae and respondents, health promotion activities, health promotion needs, and bottlenecks to operate programs. Data was analyzed using SAS 8.1 by applying X2-test, t-test and ANOVA.
Results:
1. 25.4% of the total workplaces employed health care managers.
2. Musculoskeletal management programs(49.6%) were the highest operating program.
3. The highest needs of health promotion programs were lifestyle management ad disease prevention.
4. health promotion activities were significantly different according to the type and size of workplaces. The programs were more frequently applied in manufacturing industries than non-manufacturing and in large-scale enterprises than sell and middle-scale enterprises.
5 The needs of health promotion programs were high in non-manufacturing indusries than manufacturing industries in all programs.
6. The major bottlenecks to operate programs were the difficulty ing securing time, lack of budets and lack of legal regulations.
Conclusions: Health promotion activities were linked to their work environments including budgets, time, and law, Tkherefore, to operate effective health peromotion programs in workplaces, various health promotion programs are required to be developed and systems for governmeotal support and maragement should be established.