GOOD HEALTH IS GOOD BUSINESS: PRENATAL HEALTH EDUCATION IN THE WORK PLACE
| Autor: | Kathleen M. Lux |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
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| Zdroj: | Family & Community Health. 12:77-79 |
| ISSN: | 0160-6379 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00003727-198911000-00011 |
| Popis: | Hawaiis Good Health is Good Business (GHGB) program introduces prenatal and health education into the work place to help meet the needs of working women and business organizations. The following objectives were established for the GHGB program: 1) to help employees realize their responsibility for and influence on their own and others health especially in regard to pregnancy; 2) to increase the employees awareness of and capacity to handle health risks; 3) to promote supportive behaviors for good health between employees; 4) to increase employee knowledge of resources within the company and the community to assist in improving and maintaining health; and 5) to increase employee utilization of health resources within the company and the community. Seminar topics included healthy childbearing; nutrition and fetal development; stress exercise and pregnancy; smoking drugs and alcohol during pregnancy; breastfeeding and working mothers; teenage pregnancy; and genetic counseling. The GHGB program was offered as a free service to all businesses who were March of Dimes sponsors. A speakers bureau was established to provide an ongoing list of qualified volunteer lecturers for the seminars and to distribute the workload of teaching the seminars. Speakers attended a "Train the Trainer" orientation workshop which reviewed program goals and available materials provided a list of topics and outlines and discussed the programs structure and its interface with the speakers bureau. Program evaluation forms for seminar participants revealed that the business community viewed the program favorably. |
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