Health Promotion in the Working World

I A Conceptual Framework.- Introductory Remarks.- Health Promotion: A New Approach at the Workplace.- Approaches to Holistic Health Promotion at the Workplace.- Lifestyle, Stress and Work: Strategies for Health Promotion.- Participation: Three Major Obstacles.- Workers' Participation: A Key to Health Promotion at the Workplace.- II Stress and Stressors.- Introductory Remarks.- What is Stress?.- The Six Major Sources of Stress at Work.- New Stressors.- Noise: A Leading Cause of Stress.- Stress and Illness: What Relationship?.- Stress: A Holistic Approach Is Needed.- III Coping and Managing Stress.- Introductory Remarks.- A. At the Personal Level.- Resources: A Major Asset in Coping with Stressors.- Risk Behaviours as Stress-Coping Strategies: Implications for Intervention.- How Women Office Workers Deal with Stress.- Self-expression - An Antidote to Stress.- B. At the Company Level.- Four Major Approaches to Wellbeing.- Efforts Must Be Multidimensional.- Social Support Through Company Doctors: Is It Possible?.- Managing Stress in the Workplace.- IV Approaches to Health Promotion at the Workplace.- Introductory Remarks.- Experiences of Success.- A Parcourse for Health Promotion Programs in the Workplace.- Activation at the Workplace Through Educational Processes.- An Action-Oriented Project in the Timber Industry.- A Place Where You Like to Work: Colonia.- Health Promotion Through Courses on "Slimming - But Sensibly".- Research into the Feasibility and Impact of Health Promotion in the Work Setting.- Health Circles in a Steel Plant Prove an Effective Approach.- V Shaping Our Future.- Introductory Remarks.- Scenarios for Lifestyles and Health.- Twenty-one Possible Futures.- New Strategies for Health Promotion in the Working World.- Some Concluding Remarks.-References.