Workplace health-promotion intervention programs focus on employees as agents of change. In this way, they differ in practice from traditional occupational safety and health initiatives. The goal of health promotion is achieved by empowering workers as a group to attain higher levels of self-awareness and self-determination. In Taiwan, academia, government, and industry have considered and disseminated the concepts and specific techniques of workplace health promotion in recent years. Nevertheless, the design and practice of workplace health-promotion programs in Taiwan are still limited to the traditional top-down model and a focus on changing individual behavior. International experiences with workplace health promotion and its relationship to traditional occupational safety and health have seldom been explored in depth in Taiwan. In this article, we review the literature and compare the experiences of Taiwan and other countries in an effort to facilitate future policy-making and design of workplace health-promotion intervention programs.
Date:
2008-08
Relation:
Taiwan Journal of Public Health. 2008 Aug;27(4):271-281.
