title: [Study on engagement in health promotion at the workplace of non-public health providers in Poland].
abstract: Increasing life expectancy in Europe impose a necessity to extend a work ability span. Appropriate health status of working population requires not merely curative care in case of diagnosed diseases but also comprehensive preventive care.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The article provides results of a study on engagement of the Polish companies that are covered by a private employee health plans in certain workplace health promotion activities.
  
  
  METHODS
  [corrected] 411 companies out of invited 3512 (11,7% participation rate) took part in the study performed in 2011. The majority of study group were large companies (over 50 employees--74%), and smaller, privately owned (less than 50 employees--77%). Companies were asked questions using ENWHP checklist tool on supporting employees in physical activity, smoking cessation, healthy diet and coping with stress.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In general, 44% of the companies declared any engagement in employee health promotion. Results showed that companies support mainly physical activity (27% of a study group) and quitting smoking (19%). Researched employers rarely offered support in healthy diet (8%) or stress reduction (5%). There is also a significant relation between higher engagement rate in health promotion among companies that have implemented a special health policy and detailed action plans. However, small enterprises were less likely to provide any preventive action to employees. Even if small enterprises decide to implement any health promotion they usually were based on a single action without broader planning.
authors.affiliation: Katedra i Zakład Zdrowia Publicznego Warszawskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego. grzegorz.juszczyk@wum.edu.pl
authors.forename: Grzegorz
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Juszczyk
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pergoł
authors.forename: Dominik
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Olejniczak
authors.forename: Bozena
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Walewska-Zielecka
authors.forename: Janusz
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Slusarczyk
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006291:Health Policy; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011044:Poland; D015397:Program Evaluation; D058012:Small Business / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace