Health Promotion In Australia

One of the most significant challenges facing society at present is maintaining health and high quality of life. Health promotion has been seen as ‘the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve , their health’ (WHO, 1984). It is clear that the responsibility of the promotion of health and quality of life can not be shouldered by government alone. The long period of time at working in daily life means that the work organizations can provide access to health promotion to individual conveniently (Cox, 1997). Therefore, workplaces can be seen as core players in health promotion.
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The intervention contributed to a significant lower level of psychological distress, prolonged fatigue, and perceived stress (Huang, Li, Huang & Tang, 2015). This intervention encourages staffs to take more self-acceptance and self-care to obtain greater relaxation and inner peace, rather than accept mental health services which provided by health professionals or employers (Moody et al., 2013). Therefore, MBI changes the role of employees in the process of mental health promotion. In addition, the culture of the organization is also changed by this intervention, which contributes to the construction of the environment of accepting different experiences among staffs. Furthermore, the Health Promotion Enterprise (HPE) Program can also significantly promote the mental health of employee. This intervention program was effective at the improving participants’ sense of control over their jobs, their ability to work, and their ability to meet the mental requirement of their work. The intervention program decreased the level of work stress of participants and reduced the probability of obtaining absenteeism-related depression as well. These positive results were achieved by providing health promotion activities to employees at the individual level and improving the quality of organizational mental health care (Sun, Buys & Wang, 2013). The results revealed the importance of promoting a healthy physical and social environment and creating healthy cultures in workplace. Developing clear policies was another important reason for the success of the intervention program. These policies included nondiscrimination, nonsmoking, anti-bullying and drug use (Sun, Buys & Wang,