Salutogena perspektiv för ett friskare arbetsliv.

: En enkätstudie med fokus på de anställda inom äldreomsorgen.

Abstract

There are several studies that describe how illness in health care has increased. The focus has long been on highlighting the factors that contribute to illness in the workplace. Instead of only thinking preventively, it is also important to focus on the health and the factors that contribute to maintain good health and make people stay at their workplaces. Work and health are related when people spend much of their lives at their workplace. In order to develop on both the organizational and individual level requires that the workplace contributes to supportive environments, participation, social support, health promoting leadership, personal skills and knowledge. The aim of this study was to investigate health promotion and maintaining factors in creating a pleasant and stimulating workplace with staff as target population. The aim was to highlight the salutogenic factors which would make it possible to create a useful base that could contribute to a more health-promoting work among employees in elderly care. A quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted on about 1000 employees in elderly care and the response rate was 23%. The data collection was processed and analyzed using statistical program, SPSS. The results showed that employees who were 40 years and older had higher self-rated health than the younger age group. Health factors in the workplace as knowledge and development, supportive working conditions, leadership, personal experiences, self-determination was strongly related to the perception of high self-rated health. Workplace health promotion should focus more on organization and personal skills and development opportunities for employees.