WORKSITE HEALTH PROMOTION - A HUNGARIAN EXPERIMENT INTRODUCTION

Abstract

The paper presented the concept and the first data of a two-year workplace health promotion programme. The published data gave an insight into the current health status, actual lifestyle, occupational stress, coping and workplace circumstances of the experimental and the control group of the research. Analysis of the internal correlations between the indicators can help in understanding the causes of the actual problems and symptoms, thus enabling the future interventions to be more appropriate and effective. The practical importance of this study lies in drawing our attention on the principal problems in the workplace environment, work organization and employees´ lifestyle which may be connected to current or future physical and mental health problems of the workforce, thus enabling the formulation of a preventive intervention programme fitted to the target population´s needs.