Abstract
Work environment factors are highly correlated with employees’ health and well-being. Our aim was to sum up current evidence of health promotion interventions in the workplace, focusing on interventions for the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders, psychological and behavioral disorders as well as interventions for older employees and economic evaluations. We conducted a comprehensive literature search including systematic reviews published from April 2012 to October 2017 in electronic databases and search engines, websites of relevant organizations and institutions. It consisted of simple and specific terms and word combinations related to workplace health promotion based on the search strategy of a previous review. After full-text screening, 74 references met the eligibility criteria. Using the same search strategy, there was a higher proportion of relevant high-quality studies as compared with the earlier review. The heterogeneity of health promotion interventions regarding intervention components, settings and study populations still limits the comparability of studies. Future studies should also address the societal and insurer perspective, including costs to the worker such as lost income and lost time at work of family members due to caregiving activities. To this end, more high-quality evidence is needed.
Highlights
Work can be a source of psychological distress and ill health [1]
We developed a synthesis of included reviews and extracted the results reported in the reviews
While we found evidence for the positive effect of multicomponent worksite programs, the findings are quite consistent with the earlier review and in agreement with other recent reviews that include workplace-based interventions [87,88,89]
Summary
Work can be a source of psychological distress and ill health [1]. Improving working conditions may promote physical and mental health by combining both the individual and organizational level. A number of reviews and single studies have addressed the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of well-designed worksite health promotion programs to improve the health of employees and save money for employers [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13]. Work environment factors including shift work, work stress and work demands are highly correlated with employees’ health and well-being [14,15,16]. Chronic diseases are among the most common and costly of all health problems worldwide Work-related diseases cause lost working days, increase absenteeism and presentism, and reduce productivity.
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