Activities to promote health at work environment: an experience report
International Journal of Development Research
Activities to promote health at work environment: an experience report
Received 19th November, 2019; Received in revised form 03rd December, 2019; Accepted 14th January, 2020; Published online 27th February, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Raquel de Aguiar Portela et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Health education is an important tool for developing health promotion in the work environment, valuing and contributing to the quality of life and health of workers. This work aimed to describe the experience in health promotion activities. This is a descriptive study, of the experience-report type about the activities of health promotion of federal government workers in the period from January 2016 to December 2018. Eighty-seven health promotion activities were carried out, highlighting health-focused wheels of conversations, lectures and workshops. Regarding the workers' participation, there was an expressive adherence during these activities, as well as actions regarding the measurement of blood pressure and body mass index. There stands out the importance of preventive activities in the work environment, since they facilitate the access of the worker to educational practices, allowing a moment to take care of their health.
