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Women who work in manufacturing settings: Factors influencing their participation in worksite health promotion programs
- Source :
- Women's Health Issues. 6:74-81
- Publication Year :
- 1996
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1996.
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Abstract
- T he workplace is an effective channel for disseminating health promotion interventions,’ and it is becoming an increasingly important vehicle for reaching women. In the United States, 54% of women over 18 work outside the home. Bureau of Labor projections indicate that by the year 2005, women will be entering the workforce at a faster rate than men. Manufacturing worksites, in particular, offer an effective means of reaching women who are underserved, undereducated, and from lower income strata. The worksite may play a particularly important role in reaching these underserved women because they may have less access to traditional channels for health care and prevention. However, poor participation in worksite programs is often cited as a major contributor to less than optimal outcomes in worksite-based programs. Little is known about the determinants of participation in worksite health promotion programs. In addition, there is no common definition of “participation,” which adds to the confusion in this literature.2 While it is difficult to make comparisons across data that use different definitions of participation, several recurrent themes exist. Demographic characteristics tend to predict participation in worksite health promotion programs. Younger employees, those with higher education levels, and women are more likely to participate,‘-(j although men are more likely to participate in fitness programs.7,8 Organizational or worksite-level factors that promote individual participation in health promotion programs are less clear. Top management support, willingness to allow attendance on company time, and line supervisor permission to attend programs all seem to play a role in facilitating participation. Although the importance of organizational factors has been acknowledged,2,6,9-” the systematic study of how these factors differentially predict participation by Q 1996 by The Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health Published by Elsevier Science Inc 1049-3867/96/$15.00 SSDI 1049-3867(95)00049-6
- Subjects :
- Adult
Gerontology
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health (social science)
Higher education
Occupational Health Services
Psychological intervention
Health Promotion
Nursing
Maternity and Midwifery
Health care
Top management
Animals
Humans
Industry
Workplace
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Attendance
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Focus Groups
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
Health promotion
Work (electrical)
Workforce
Female
business
Psychology
Women, Working
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10493867
- Volume :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Women's Health Issues
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....076d1560671f6df0eef0fbd243db9fd8