Decades of workplace health promotion research

Decades of workplace health promotion research: marginal gains or a bright future ahead

Robroek, S.J.
Coenen, P.
Oude Hengel, K.M.

2021

The potential of workplace health promotion. Unhealthy behaviors (eg, insufficient physical activity, an unhealthy diet, high alcohol intake and smoking) and obesity are risk factors for adverse health outcomes (1,2), productivity loss due to presenteeism or sickness absence (3–6), and early exit from paid employment (7,8). Poor health and unhealthy behaviors are more prevalent among workers from low socioeconomic positions (1,2,9), as are unemployment and work disability (10,11). With a growing challenge in our societies to work longer, reflected in the increasing statutory retirement age in many European countries, an urgent need exists to enhance workers’ health to remain in paid employment. Given the profound socioeconomic inequalities in health behaviors, health, and participation in paid employment, this is particularly pressing among workers in lower socioeconomic positions.

Editorial
Health behavior
Health promotion
Health promotion research
Unhealthy behavior
Workplace health

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https://doi.org/10.5271/sjweh.3995

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Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, 47 (47), 561-564

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