Workplace health promotion: What public-sector employees want, need, and are ready to change

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 645-651

  Kilpatrick, Michelle ^a   Sanderson, Kristy ^a   Blizzard, Leigh ^a   Nelson, Mark ^a   Frendin, Sue ^b   Teale, Brook ^c   Venn, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Department of Health and Human Services ^*  (Australia)

^c Tasmanian State Government   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; NUTRITION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SELF CONCEPT; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; WORKPLACE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PUBLIC SECTOR; SMOKING CESSATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84902265732     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000161     Document Type: Article

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