Abstract:
:This study was performed to elucidate the status of the implementation of health promotion programs (HPPs) and future tasks in occupational settings in Japan. A survey was conducted using a multiple type questionnaire mailed to 395 companies throughout Japan in 1993. The questionnaire was mailed back, after having been answered anonymously, with a response rate of 59%. Companies with more than 300 employees accounted for 76% of the sample. Approximately 70% of the companies implemented HPPs of which health guidance and fitness programs were the two most frequently adopted programs. Nutrition education and mental health programs seemed to be emphasized as future possibilities. Smoking cessation programs were not as common as segregation policies, such as zoning of smoking areas. Currently, 45% of the companies used only in-house health personnel for HPPs, but the prospective percentage in the future was 24%. Most of the companies shared the cost of HPPs with a Health Insurance Society. Lack of health personnel and budgetary restrictions on HPPs constituted the major barriers to the implementation of HPPs. Small-scale enterprises were noted to be particularly influenced by these barriers.
journal_name
Ind Healthjournal_title
Industrial healthauthors
Muto T,Kikuchi S,Tomita M,Fujita Y,Kurita M,Ozawa Kdoi
10.2486/indhealth.34.101subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1996-01-01 00:00:00pages
101-11issue
2eissn
0019-8366issn
1880-8026journal_volume
34pub_type
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