Subjective assessment by employees of health-saving technologies at the individual level and in the workplace

Abstract

Aim to study the attitude to a healthy lifestyle of employees of various professions by means of a questionnaire and their assessment of the health-saving technologies used in the workplace.
 Material and methods. 210 workers took part in the survey. The questionnaire included 24 questions that allow us to evaluate employees' ideas about a healthy lifestyle, technologies for self-preservation of health and a system of health-saving measures at the enterprise. The obtained data were subjected to mathematical and statistical processing.
 Results. The analysis of respondents' responses revealed the formation of respondents' ideas about a healthy lifestyle (HLS), however, the proportion of people following the principles of HLS in each of the two groups formed by industry is low. Respondents consider lack of time, material difficulties and lack of perseverance and will to be the main reasons preventing compliance with the requirements of a healthy lifestyle, and the most popular measures of self-preservation of health are compliance with sleep and rest, annual medical examination. It should be noted the prevalence of such behavioral risk factors in both groups as poor nutrition and low physical activity, which, apparently, is the reason for a significant proportion of positive responses about being overweight, exceeding the national average. Among men of the first group, the proportion of smokers is also high. Insufficient attention is paid at enterprises to ensuring safe working conditions using innovative technologies and collective means of protection. Various ways of compensating employees for working in harmful working conditions are rarely used, as well as means of encouraging and increasing employees' motivation for healthy lifestyle.
 Conclusions. In order to solve the problem of protecting the health of employees and achieving work longevity, it is necessary to tighten the legislative requirements for the introduction of comprehensive health promotion programs in the workplace, the promotion of healthy lifestyle.
 Ethics. The study was conducted in compliance with all ethical standards set out in the Helsinki Declaration of the World Medical Association and the Directives of the European Community.