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The role of business size in assessing the uptake of health promoting workplace initiatives in Australia
| العنوان: | The role of business size in assessing the uptake of health promoting workplace initiatives in Australia |
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| المؤلفون: | Taylor, A., Pilkington, R., Montgomerie, A., Feist, H. |
| المصدر: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3011-3. |
| بيانات النشر: | Biomed Central |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| المجموعة: | The University of Adelaide: Digital Library |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Humans, Cohort Studies, Commerce, Adult, Aged, Middle Aged, Occupational Health, Health Promotion, Australia, Female, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires |
| الوصف: | Worksite health promotion (WHP) initiatives are increasingly seen as having potential for large-scale health gains. While health insurance premiums are directly linked to workplaces in the USA, other countries with universal health coverage, have less incentive to implement WHP programs. Size of the business is an important consideration with small worksites less likely to implement WHP programs. The aim of this study was to identify key intervention points and to provide policy makers with evidence for targeted interventions.The worksites (n = 218) of randomly selected, working participants, aged between 30 and 65 years, in two South Australian cohort studies were surveyed to assess the practices, beliefs, and attitudes regarding WHP. A survey was sent electronically or by mail to management within each business.Smaller businesses (<20 employees) had less current health promotion activies (mean 1.0) compared to medium size businesses (20-200 employees - mean 2.4) and large businesses (200+ employees - mean 2.9). Management in small businesses were less likely (31.0 %) to believe that health promotion belonged in the workplace (compared to 55.7 % of medium businesses and 73.9 % of large businesses) although half of small businesses did not know or were undecided (compared to 36.4 and 21.6 % of medium and large businesses). In total, 85.0 % of smaller businesses believed the health promotion activities currently employed in the worksite were effective (compared to 89.2 % of medium businesses and 83.1 % of large businesses). Time and funding were the most cited responses to the challenges to implementing health promoting strategies regardless of business size. Small businesses ranked morale and work/life balance the highest among a range of health promotion activities that were important for their workplace while work-related injury was the highest ranked consideration for large businesses.This study found that smaller workplaces had many barriers, beliefs and challenges regarding WHP. Often small businesses ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1471-2458 |
| Relation: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP0990065; BMC Public Health, 2016; 16(1):1-8; http://hdl.handle.net/2440/104204; Taylor, A. [0000-0002-4422-7974]; Pilkington, R. [0000-0001-6974-8496]; Montgomerie, A. [0000-0002-9620-3894]; Feist, H. [0000-0003-0796-6193] |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12889-016-3011-3 |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/2440/104204 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3011-3 |
| Rights: | © 2016 Taylor et al. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.E6C29140 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
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| DOI: | 10.1186/s12889-016-3011-3 |