An integrated health protection/promotion program supporting participatory ergonomics and salutogenic approaches in the design of workplace interventions

Salutogenic Organizations and Change: The Concepts Behind Organizational Health Intervention Research

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 307-325

  Henning, Robert A ^a   Reeves, David W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Sirota The Centre at Purchase   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

CPH NEW; Cybernetics; Employee participation; Health promotion; Health protection; Integration; Macroergonomics; Occupational safety and health; Organizational learning; Participatory ergonomics; Program sustainability; Salutogenesis; Sense of coherence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890566281     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6470-5_17     Document Type: Chapter

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