title: Following the trend for a comprehensive healthy workplace in Taiwan.
abstract: To promote workers' health and boost corporate productivity and national competitiveness, workplace health promotion is an international trend and a vital part of national policies. Prior to 2000, Taiwan's workplace issues focused on industrial hygiene and safety improvements. Since 2003, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) at the Ministry of Health and Welfare has established coaching centers for workplace health promotion and dispatched trained experts for teaching health promotion skills; including promoting the tobacco control program, preventing important chronic diseases, driving comprehensive programs, advocating workplace health promotion with the Ministry of Labor, establishing certification mechanisms for workplace health promotion, recognizing outstanding health-promoting workplaces, and conducting a nationwide survey for monitoring the practices of healthy behaviors and health conditions of workers. Through 2014, 12,439 workplaces have been accredited.Since 2003, the efforts of the HPA in workplace health promotion projects has shifted society's focus on workplace health from occupational diseases and injury prevention to workplace health promotion, resulting in the revision of the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 2013 by the Ministry of Labor to detail employers' responsibilities in protecting and promoting employees' health and well-being.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Ruey-Yu
authors.initials: RY
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Director-General, Department of Nursing and Health, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan lhyutw@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Li-Hui
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D016272:Occupational Health; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013624:Taiwan; D017132:Workplace / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control
keywords: injury prevention; occupational diseases; workplace health promotion