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Planning Health Promotion Program in Workplace
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Kyeong Ja Chun, Hwa Joong Kim
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J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 1994;5(1):5-29. Published online June 30, 1994
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- In recent years, interests in health promotion have been stimulated by the epidemiological transition from infectious to chronic diseases as lead ing causes of death, the aging of the population, rapidly escalating health care costs, and epidemiologic findings linking individual risk to morbidity and mortality.
It is not surprising that the workplace has been targeted as a promising setting for health promotion. In Korea, national attention to the opportunities for workplace health promotion began in the first 1990s. But there is no in depth study to identify the relating factors to the health promotion program in the workplace.
The objective of this study is behavioral and physical characteristics to find that in crease the person's risk for a range of health problems and to analysis other characteristics to influence the degree of his/her intention to change health behavior. In addition, this study is purposed to present the process of planning health promotion program in the workplace.
To accomplish these objectives, one workplaces was selected. And 363 employees in those workplaces were served as subjects for the study.
Major findings in this study are as follows.
(1) They have many risk factors such as smoking, drinking, lack of sleep, law rate of regular exercise, irregular eating, stress.
(2) Some of the health risk factors such as smoking, drinking, and stress have the negative correlation to the intention to change.
(3) Among cognitive and socio-environmental factors, significant predictors to the intention are attitude and social support.
(4) In the cluster analysis to segment the target population in to homogeneous unit, three clusters of lifestyle are specified.
(5) Smoking cessation and exercise program are planned for the risk group to change their behavior.
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