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Effect of Workplace Counseling Interventions Launched by Workplace Health Promotion and Tobacco Control Centers in Taiwan: An Evaluation Based on the Ottawa Charter
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 3, p e0150710 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science, 2016.
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Abstract
- Workplace health promotion (WHP) is important to prevent work-related diseases, reduce workplace hazards, and improve personal health of the workers. Health promotion projects were launched through the centers of WHP funded by the Taiwan Bureau of Health Promotion since 2003. Hence, the aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of WHP programs intervention from 2003 to 2007. The intervention group consisted of 838 business entities which had ever undergone counseling of the three centers in northern, central, and southern Taiwan from 2003 to 2007. The control group was composed of 1000 business entities randomly selected from the business directories of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan. The questionnaire survey included general company profiles and the assessment of workplace health according to the five action areas of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. We have received 447 (53.3%) questionnaires from the intervention group and 97 questionnaires from the control group. The intervention group was more effective in using the external resources and medical consultation, and they had better follow-up rates of the abnormal results of annual health examinations. Compared to the control group, the intervention group had a significantly decreased smoking rate in 246 companies (61.2%) and a reduced second-hand smoke exposure in 323 companies (78.6%) (p
- Subjects :
- Questionnaires
Counseling
Psychological intervention
Occupational Health Services
lcsh:Medicine
Chi Square Tests
Geographical Locations
Habits
0302 clinical medicine
Mathematical and Statistical Techniques
Hygiene
Surveys and Questionnaires
Medicine and Health Sciences
Smoking Habits
Medicine
Public and Occupational Health
030212 general & internal medicine
lcsh:Science
Workplace
media_common
Multidisciplinary
Tobacco control
Questionnaire
030210 environmental & occupational health
Research Design
Physical Sciences
Environmental Health
Statistics (Mathematics)
Research Article
Asia
Tobacco Control
media_common.quotation_subject
Taiwan
Health Promotion
Research and Analysis Methods
03 medical and health sciences
Workplace health promotion
Nursing
Intervention (counseling)
Humans
Statistical Methods
Statistical Hypothesis Testing
Behavior
Survey Research
business.industry
lcsh:R
Charter
Biology and Life Sciences
Health Care
Health promotion
People and Places
lcsh:Q
business
Mathematics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8c327db203bdd173ad7fd806418a71ee