Workplace health promotion: The role and responsibility of health care managers

Journal of Nursing Management

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 59-68

  Whitehead, Dean ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Health care management; Health promoting workplace; Health promotion; Organizational capacity building; Workplace health promotion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; WORKPLACE;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROFESSIONAL ROLE; WORKPLACE;

EID: 33644874559     PISSN: 09660429     EISSN: 1365263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2934.2005.00599.x     Document Type: Article

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