Workplace health promotion is the combined efforts of employers, employees, and society to improve the mental and physical health and well-being of people at work.The term workplace health promotion denotes a comprehensive analysis and design of human and organizational work levels with the strategic aim of developing and improving health resources in an enterprise.
The World Health Organization has prioritized the workplace as a setting for health promotion because of the large potential audience and influence on all spheres of a person's life.The Luxembourg Declaration provides that health and well-being of employees at work can be achieved through a combination of:
Improving the organization and the working environment Promoting active participation Encouraging personal development.
Workplace health promotion combines alleviation of health risk factors with enhancement of health strengthening factors and seeks to further develop protection factors and health potentials.Workplace health promotion is complementary to the discipline of occupational safety and health, which consists of protecting workers from hazards.