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Workplace health promotion (WHP) is the combined efforts of employers, employees and society to improve the health and well-being of people at work.〔Luxembourg Declaration on Workplace health promotion in the European Union. 1997〕 The term workplace health promotion further denotes a comprehensive analysis and design at human – organization – work levels strategically and methodologically aiming at development of health resources in the enterprise. The World Health Organization has prioritized the workplace as a setting for health promotion because of the large potential audience and influence on all spheres of a person's life.〔http://www.who.int/occupational_health/topics/workplace/en/〕 The Luxembourg Declaration provides that health and well-being of employees at work can be achieved through combination of a) improving the organization and the working environment, b) promoting active participation, and c) encouraging personal development.〔 Workplace health promotion strategies also combine alleviation of health risk factors with enhancement of health strengthening factors. Successful workplace health promotion strategies include the principles of participation, integration, project management, and comprehensiveness. All staff have to be involved; workplace health promotion has to be integrated in all important decisions and in all areas of organisations; all measures and programmes have to be oriented to a problem-solving cycle; and workplace health promotion includes individual-directed and environment-directed measures from various fields. It combines the strategy of risk reduction with the strategy of the development of protection factors and health potentials. The positive impact of implementation of workplace health promotion programmes on productivity is widely discussed. The first logical step is to examine the impact of workplace health promotion on absenteeism as productivity is impossible if an employee is absent.〔Wolf Kirsten. Health and productivity management – a future model for Europe〕 However, the potential of increasing productivity is much greater when presenteeism is analysed as it presents the situation when an employee is being registered as attending and being paid with lower performance due to a health condition or other causes. Workplace health promotion is complementary to the discipline of occupational safety and health, which consists of protecting workers from hazards. == Strategies == Strategies for workplace health promotion include the use of pedometers to encourage more physical activity.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Workplace health promotion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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