Organizational factors and the attitude toward health promotion in German ICT-companies

Health Promotion International

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 382-393

  Jung, Julia ^a   Nitzsche, Anika ^a   Ansmann, Lena ^a   Ernstmann, Nicole ^a   Ommen, Oliver ^a   Stieler Lorenz, Brigitte ^b   Wasem, Jürgen ^c   Pfaff, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Core Business Development ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

attitude; managerial staff attitudes; public health; worksite health promotion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GERMANY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS; TECHNOLOGY;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GERMANY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84864858870     PISSN: 09574824     EISSN: 14602245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dar049     Document Type: Article

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