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Worksite health promotion and social inequalities in health.
Article in SSM - population health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Association Between Health Literacy and Prehypertension in South Korean Adults: Cross-Sectional Study Using the 2023 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2026Article
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- Approaches for the Use of AI in Workplace Health Promotion and Prevention: Systematic Scoping Review.JMIR AI · 2024Article
- Cognitive Job Demands and Sports Participation among Young Workers: What Moderates the Relationship?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Process evaluation of workplace health promotion in a sheltered workplace: a care ethics perspective.Health promotion international · 2023Article
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- Responsive evaluation: an innovative evaluation methodology for workplace health promotion interventions.BMJ open · 2022Review
- The effectiveness of workplace health promotion programs on self-perceived health of employees with a low socioeconomic position: An individual participant data meta-analysis.SSM - population health · 2021Review
- Success factors of health promotion: Evaluation by DEMATEL and M-DEMATEL methods - A case study in a non-profit organization.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
It is well-documented that higher educated employees have better health than the lower educated. The workplace has been put forward as a contributor to this inequality. We extend previous work on workplace characteristics that could influence employee health by asking to what extent workplace health promotion (WHP) can account for the relation between education and health. Two ways in which WHP may relate to health inequalities are addressed: higher educated employees may be more likely to use WHP than lower educated employees and the effect of WHP on health may be stronger for higher educated than for lower educated employees. Using data from the European Sustainable Workforce Survey which contains information on over 11000 employees in 259 organisations, we test whether three types of WHP mediate or moderate the relation between education and health: healthy menus, sports facilities and health checks. We find that higher educated employees are in better health and that use of WHP positively relates to health. Use of healthy menus and sports facilities in the workplace can contribute to increasing health inequalities, as lower educated employees are less likely to make use of these. Health checks could contribute to diminishing health inequalities, as lower educated employees are more likely to use them compared to higher educated employees. The effect of WHP is not contingent on education. We advise stimulating lower educated employees to make more use of WHP, which can contribute to decreasing health inequalities.
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