Open AccessPeculiarities of behavioral risk factors for health in workers of industrial enterprises
Author(s) -
Anastasiya O. Barg
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
gigiena i sanitariâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.275
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2412-0650
pISSN - 0016-9900
DOI - 10.18821/0016-9900-2016-95-1-48-53
Subject(s) - perception , risk perception , occupational safety and health , environmental health , psychology , health risk , population , business , consumption (sociology) , applied psychology , risk analysis (engineering) , medicine , sociology , social science , pathology , neuroscience
There is actualized the problem of the needfor the awareness of the peculiarities of the subjective perception of health risks in the particular social group as the first step towards the construction of an effective system for the provision of information about risks. There was noted the presence of the gap between expert and everyday knowledge about risk. On the base of materials of two representative sociological surveys of working population of the Perm region with the use of the author tools of the research, there was performed in-depth analysis of the perception of risks and were shown the features of subjective assessment of health risks related to nutrition, smoking and alcohol consumption in workers of industrial enterprises. The empirical analysis of perception of risks related to peculiarities of individual behavior of employees was pointed to be performed extremely rare. The perception of the industrial workers of the health risks related to behavioral factors was revealed to have a multilevel structure. Under the high level of awareness about behavioral health risk factors, self-protection modes of behavior were established to fail to occur widely among employees. Workers in industrial enterprises were determined to be characterized by the overestimation of the impact of environmental and occupational factors on health along with the underestimating of the significance of individual behavior. There was proved the low efficiency of the linear model for the provision of information about risks. The proposed principles of the construction of risk communications in the field of health, ensuring the successful management of the risk perception by workers in the form of transition from provision of information to communication, that means the reliance on dialogue, the abandonment of unilateral translation of knowledge from the leaders (experts) in favor of regular exchange of information with the aim of shaping of consensus on what risk factors are significant, how they influence on the human health and what should be done to minimize them.