ICAP 2014 Abstract
Health Psychology / Psychologie de la santé
BO-080108
Health promotion at the work place. The case of palliative care teams
Volker Schulte 1,* on behalf of ICAP2014-SP1189Evelyn Kortum 2 on behalf of ICAP2014-SP1189Christoph Steinebach 3 on behalf of ICAP2014-SP1189
1University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, School of Business, Institute of Management, Brugg, 2World Health Organization. Interventions für Healthy Environments, Dept. of Public Health, Geneva, 3School of Applied Psychology, Zürich University of Applied Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland
Abstract: Workplace
health promotion is a strategy to improve the health and well-being of
people at work. The measures aim at the personal, organisational and
work environment. The study will highlight the state of the art of
workplace health promotion programs promoted by WHO and will combine
these aspects with the challenges for health workers in Palliative Care
teams.
In 2010, the
World Health Organization (WHO) published "Healthy Workplaces: A Model
for Action", and its supporting document, "WHO Healthy Workplace
Framework and Model: Background and Supporting Literature and
Practices." The purpose of these documents was to promote an integrated
approach to worker health promotion and protection, to assist
enterprises and organisations in any country to create “healthy
workplaces” in which the workers are engaged, healthy and safe, and to
allow the enterprise or the organisation to be efficient, productive and
sustainably successful, as well as to provide policy guidance. The
model for a healthy workplace described in these publications includes
two aspects: content and process. The model suggests that in terms of
content, workplaces should consider the physical work environment, the
psychosocial work environment, the personal health resources provided
for workers, and the involvement of the enterprise in the community. In
terms of the process used to develop the programme, the model includes
eight steps:
1. Mobilize (mobilize and gain commitment from significant stakeholders)
2. Assemble (assemble a team and resources)
3. Assess (assess the present situation and the desired situation)
4. Prioritize
(decide which of the needs are the greatest and most urgent to address)
5. Plan (develop annual plans and a 3-5 year plan)
6. Do (implement the plan)
7. Evaluate
(to see what is working, what is not, and what are the impediments to
success)
8. Improve (make changes based on the evaluation results)
Palliative
Care is stressful and psychologically challenging, because Palliative
Care comprises the care and treatment of patients with incurable,
life-threatening and/or chronically progressive diseases. Palliative
care works only with an inter-professional team approach. So, the
presentation will highlight the approach, the process and the methods to
implement workplace health promotion in Palliative Care settings by
considering WHO guidelines.
Keywords: None