Dear All
I must agree with Kevin that this debate about health promotion has shown
that so many people regard it as something very confined to healthy
lifestyle rather than what it really is.
OH is about promoting good health - even the DOH/HSE/ Securing Health
Together message says 'improving health is everybody's business' - see
www.signupweb.net where you can 'sign up' to receive their free newsletter
on what is happening from DOH healthy workplaces view point - you also
receive NHS Plus newsletters. I believe the DOH is signed up to healthy
workplaces and promoting health and as Dr Kit Harling says the message is
that whilst running a business you should consider health in the workplace.
So, yes, the bottom line is that all OH is health promotion in the workplace
cos that's what we do!! If we consider sickness absence and bad backs -
think of this totally from government initiatives - statutory manual
handling regs to the HSE 'Back in Work' campaign and see what has been
achieved at a local level and the evaluation - Sign Up news letter quotes
examples of good practice e.g Rolls Royce offered OHS and physio to local
SMEs and reduced the incidence of back pain, reduced sickness absence and
companies saved money. Visit the website for more info.
Greta Thornbory
Education & Health Care Consultant
WWW.gtenterprises-uk.com
01235 770156 phone
01235 765797 fax
07778 518 027 mobile
----- Original Message -----
From: Maguire, Kevin <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: Health Promotion
> I did not consider my meagre offering would generate a debate but I am
glad
> that it did. There are very different ideas out there which all can help
to
> inform us. I am interested in the thought that health promotion must be
a
> non-statutory activity. I also find interesting the idea of withdrawing
from
> health promotion when budgets become tight: I wonder if could be said to
fit
> into a view of HP only referring to non-stat duties.
>
> While the debate about the boundaries to HP goes on, I would like to open
up
> the matter of evaluation of interventions more generally (whether or not
> some see them as promotion [or not]). Do any of you have any nice
examples?
> I would be especially interested to hear of any that, at the targeted
> 'objective' level, suggested that the intervention was not successful.
Did
> any of these actually have other non-target but more useful outcomes?
>
> Regards
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
> Kevin MAGUIRE BSc BA MSc CPsychol MCIEH, Senior Lecturer, Division of
> Environmental Health and Safety, The Nottingham Trent University, Burton
> Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU, United Kingdom. Telephone +44 (0)115 848 2603
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