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Exploring the use of action research to stimulate and evaluate workplace health promotion

  • Emma Wilkinson
    ,
  • Elizabeth Elander
    ,
  • Martin Woolaway
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Abstract

This article descrbes a health authority's approach to setting up and evaluating a coronary heart disease prevention programme through the workplace. The Bedfordshire Healthy Workplace Project was set up in 1992 to 'stinulate interest and activity in workplace health promotion' and has developed an action research model to evaluate the impact of working with local employers on coronary heart disease risk behaviour. Action research as a methdology for health promotion research, and some of the main benefits and barriers are discussed.

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Research Output:
Contribution to journal
Article
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Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 188-198

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Health Education Journal (Volume 56, Issue 2)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/06/1997

Publication status

Published - 01/06/1997

ISSN

0017-8969

Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/622608
  • Scopus: 0001629189

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