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Letter – Workplace health promotion and pedometers: response to Hess, Borg and Rissel
Author(s) -
Saunders Margo
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
health promotion journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2201-1617
pISSN - 1036-1073
DOI - 10.1071/he11156b
Subject(s) - health promotion , population health , medicine , health economics , physical activity , public health , community health , physical therapy , promotion (chess) , gerontology , nursing , political science , politics , law
Despite the importance of their concluding call for workplace health promotion interventions focusing on male employees in the healthcare sector, the report by Hess, Borg and Rissel1 raises concerns about the design of current workplace health promotion programs. Specifically, the program that they describe – the TEAM Challenge at Liverpool Hospital – risks being regarded an example of how in health promotion, as in history, those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.