Integrating occupational health protection and health promotion: theory and program application.
1. The worksite offers an excellent setting to focus on both health protection and health promotion. Collaboration between health professionals concerned with health protection and health promotion would achieve common goals of risk reduction related to job risks and life risks. 2. Workers who experience "double jeopardy" because they are exposed to job risks and life risks would benefit most. 3. Benefits of integration include lower health risks, joint responsibility to promote health and safety shared between management and workers, and cost effectiveness. 4. The social ecological model is useful in developing an integrated program as it is multidimensional, interdisciplinary, and includes the dynamic interplay between the environment and personal factors impacting the health outcome.
Department of Nursing, California State University at Fullerton, USA.
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D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009742:Nursing Theory; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009785:Occupational Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D017132:Workplace