Workplace Health Education: Work Group Consensus, Priorities and Practices

Setting priorities in health education and promotion.

Literacy, education and health development: research priorities.

How education and health are linked in developing countries and what educational activities produce change are quite uncertain. Questions for research on these concerns are noted, and it is suggested that prospective longitudinal studies, household surveys, and field observations might well be added to the more usual multivariate analyses of records. Analyses of educational program implementati...

Do workplace health promotion (wellness) programs work?

OBJECTIVE To respond to the question, "Do workplace health promotion programs work?" METHODS A compilation of the evidence on workplace programs' effectiveness coupled with recommendations for critical review of outcome studies. Also, reviewed are recent studies questioning the value of workplace programs. RESULTS Evidence accumulated over the past three decades shows that well-designed and...

Health promotion in Danish schools: local priorities, policies and practices.

This article discusses the findings from a study mapping out the priorities, policies and practices of local authorities concerning health promotion (HP) and health education (HE) in primary and lower secondary schools in Denmark. The aim of the study was to identify the gaps, tensions and possibilities associated with the demand to increase the quality and effectiveness of HP in schools. The r...

Redefining Workplace Safety and Health