Role of trade unions in workplace health promotion
| Autor: | Timo Partanen, Mauri Johansson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Economic growth
International Cooperation Occupational Health Services Participatory action research Context (language use) Legislation Health Promotion Capitalism Global Health Occupational safety and health 03 medical and health sciences Globalization 0302 clinical medicine Workplace health promotion Political science Neoplasms Surveys and Questionnaires Global health Humans Industry 030212 general & internal medicine Workplace Finland Sweden 030505 public health business.industry Labor Unions Health Policy Research Role Public relations Health promotion Organizational Case Studies Feasibility Studies 0305 other medical science business Attitude to Health |
| Zdroj: | International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation. 32(1) |
| ISSN: | 0020-7314 |
| Popis: | Since the 19th century, workers have organized in trade unions and parties to strengthen their efforts at improving workplace health and safety, job conditions, working hours, wages, job contracts, and social security. Cooperation between workers and their organizations and professionals has been instrumental in improving regulation and legislation affecting workers' health. The authors give examples of participatory research in occupational health in Denmark and Finland. The social context of workplace health promotion, particularly the role of unions and workers' safety representatives, is described in an international feasibility study. Health promotion is rife with fundamental political, socioeconomic, philosophical, ethical, gender- and ethnicity-related, psychological, and biological problems. Analysis of power and context is crucial, focusing on political systems nationally, regionally, and globally. The authors advocate defending and supporting workers and their trade unions and strengthening their influence on workplace health promotion. In the face of rapid capitalist globalization, unions represent a barricade in defense of workers' health and safety. Health promoters and related professionals are encouraged to support trade unions in their efforts to promote health for workers and other less privileged groups. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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