Global Perspectives on Health Promotion in the Workplace
Global perspectives
health promotion in the workplace
Health systems in the world are under intense cost pressure due to the increase in chronic diseases and unhealthy lifestyles, such as obesity, lack of exercise and stress at work. Coupled with a growing demand for increased productivity in the competitive global marketplace national and multinational employers as well as most national governments are increasingly recognizing that requires a proactive and systematic approach to promoting health employees. This book shows how 21 major countries are addressing these challenges by focusing on the following areas of health promotion in the workplace: the dominant issues of health behaviors and risk factors for key health systems existing historical and cultural influences on physical and mental health programs to establish global health promotion work, examples of good practice, important results and performance indicators and results of existing research.
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