Management, the workplace and health promotion: fantasy or reality?

Abstract

Workplace health promotion has been encouraged in Europe by the World Health Organization particularly since 1987. Except in Scandinavia, little has been done to date to establish workplace health promotion activity in ways that are unfragmented. This study, conducted in the UK, involves a group of workplace health promotion specialists who have attempted to identify some of the issues for health promotion in organisations. They discuss their work with company managers within their local ities and make suggestions for future developments of their role to make a more effective impact.