title: Understandings of health. How individual perceptions of health affect health promotion needs in organizations.
abstract: The purpose of the study was to discover what the concept of health means to the participants and to determine how an organization can assist its members in developing and maintaining their notion of health. The participants for this study were drawn from the employees at a post secondary educational institution. Tape recorded interviews were transcribed by the researcher, and the transcripts were analyzed for common topics and predominant themes. Imbedded in the data were four themes that provided an over arching conceptual framework from which to view health and health promoting activities: well being as a broad definition of health; the concept of balance as a prime contributor to health; the notion of self efficacy in determining one's health, and the value of caring as a significant determinant of health. Findings of the study have significance for individual health, organizations and health, health promoters, and further research.
authors.affiliation: Post-Basic Nursing Programs, Grant MacEwan Community College, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ness
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires