Exploring the use of action research to stimulate and evaluate workplace health promotion
Affiliation
Bedfordshire Health AuthorityIssue Date
1997-06-01Subjects
Workplace health
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This article descrbes a health authority's approach to setting up and evaluating a coronary heart disease prevention programme through the workplace. The Bedfordshire Healthy Workplace Project was set up in 1992 to 'stinulate interest and activity in workplace health promotion' and has developed an action research model to evaluate the impact of working with local employers on coronary heart disease risk behaviour. Action research as a methdology for health promotion research, and some of the main benefits and barriers are discussed.Citation
Wilkinson E, Elander E, Woolaway M (1997) 'Exploring the use of action research to stimulate and evaluate workplace health promotion', Health Education Journal, 56 (2), pp.188-198.Publisher
SageJournal
Health Education JournalAdditional Links
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/001789699705600209Type
ArticleLanguage
enISSN
0017-8969ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
https://doi.org/10.1177/001789699705600209