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  • Print publication year: 2008
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19 - Prevention: integrating health protection and health promotion perspectives

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Health protection and health promotion activities in organizations have been approached from different disciplines and perspectives, and the work environment has become safer and healthier. However, today's organizations continue to struggle with threats to both the safety and the health of workers and their families. Health protection has taken a preventive approach to eliminating and reducing accidents and occupational injuries in the workplace, as has health promotion. But health promotion has taken more of a public health perspective, using the workplace as a “convenient” location for contacting adults (Rantanen, 2003). Both perspectives have provided valuable insights into risk factors in the workplace and for workers’ lives outside of work. However, it is apparent that these different perspectives and streams of knowledge need to be integrated to reflect the system in which workers and their families exist. If we are to have a full understanding of the health and safety of the workforce, then we need to understand the facilitators and barriers to the integration of health protection and health promotion. The purpose of this chapter is to review and integrate the health protection and health promotion literature in developing a framework for understanding prevention activities and needs in the workplace.

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Health protection has historically focused on providing workers with a safe and healthy work environment.

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