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Acta medica Croatica : Časopis Akademije medicinskih znanosti Hrvatske, Vol. 72 No. 4, 2018.

Review article

WORKPLACE HEALTH PROMOTION IN EUROPE AND IN CROATIA

DIANA JOVIČIĆ BURIĆ orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-1748-7914 ; Croatian Institute of Public Health, Division of Health Promotion, Zagreb, Croatia
DANIJELA ŠTIMAC GRBIĆ ; Croatian Institute of Public Health, Division of School Medicine Mental Health and Addiction Prevention, Zagreb, and University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia
LJILJANA MUSLIĆ ; Croatian Institute of Public Health, Division of Health Promotion, Zagreb, Croatia
MARTINA MARKELIĆ ; Croatian Institute of Public Health, Division of Health Promotion, Zagreb, Croatia
SLAVEN KRTALIĆ ; Croatian Institute of Public Health, Division of Health Promotion, Zagreb, Croatia
MIRJANA MATULIĆ ; External associate of the Croatian Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia
SANJA MUSIĆ MILANOVIĆ ; Croatian Institute of Public Health, Division of Health Promotion, Zagreb, and University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

Workplace health promotion enables improvement of health and overall employee well-being through changing risk factors and promoting healthy living. According the World Health Organization, chronic non-communicable diseases are the leading cause of death and disability in the world. They lead to reduced productivity and increased costs. In order to overcome this trend, the workplace is used as the main place to promote long-term behavioral changes aimed at improving health. Workplace health promotion activities bring multiple benefi ts, from those to the individual (employees) to those to the employers and ultimately to the wider community, and thereby these activities should be one of the central public health interests. This paper presents an overview of the concept of workplace health promotion, leading organizations in the fi eld in Europe and Croatia, examples of good practice in Europe, and the workplace health promotion program in Croatia.

Keywords

health promotion; workplace; programs

Hrčak ID:

216549

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/216549

Publication date:

30.1.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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