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Operating in a highly competitive business environment and with increasing pressure on the labour market, many employers in Europe are becoming aware that they need to implement measures to improve productivity and efficiency while at the same time enhancing the working environment and company culture. Workplace health promotion has been shown to play a major role in achieving these outcomes. The ENWHP promotes good practice in workplace health promotion and advocates the adoption of such practice in all European workplaces.
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6th European Conference "HEALTHY WORK - HEALTHY LIFESTYLE - HEALTHY BUSINESS"
The ENWHP finished its seventh trans-European initiative, the “Move Europe” campaign, with the 6th European Conference in Perugia in April 2009. Under the leadership of the NCO from Italy (ISPESL/University of Perugia), a total of 25 member states participated in the three-year campaign which was aimed at the dissemination of good practices in the field of lifestyle-oriented WHP: physical activity, healthy diet, mental health and smoking prevention. more...
Move Europe business report
In the final "Move Europe" business report you will find the objectives and key data of the project, a description of the developed quality criteria and the "Company Health Check", the main results of the "Company Health Check", the results of the MOGP content analysis, policy and company recommendations for the promoting of healthy lifestyle at workplace. more...
JobFit Guide - Linking health and employment promotion
The basic idea of JobFit is to use employment providers as the setting for the implementation of health promotion and submit individual health competence consulting as well group courses for health promotion to the “lifeworld” of the registered job-seeker. Against this background possibilities for financing the approach were looked for in the labour market and health sector statutory funding. more...
Models of Good Practice were awarded in context of the Healthy Workplaces campaign on risk assessment
Eight organisations and companies were honoured with an award at the ninth annual European Good Eight organisations and companies were honoured with an award at the ninth annual European Good Practice competition organised within the Healthy Workplaces campaign on risk assessment. The winners and commended entries all promoted good safety and health practices in workplace risk assessment, illustrated in the Good Practice Booklet. more...
Men's health: are we living on a volcano?
Is the truth about men's health as deeply buried as the lost city of Pompeii once was? EMHF president Dr Ian Banks uncovers the evidence. When Mt Vesuvius erupted in 79AD, its most recent deadly expression of tectonic premature exasperation, it covered with ash at least two major cities both of which lay uncovered for centuries until the true nature of the disaster was uncovered. more...
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