Health promotion offices’ role in increasing healthcare workers’ physical activity

  • István László Gulyás Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Hospitals and University Teaching Hospital, Health Promotion Department, Health Promotion Office Nyírbátor District, Nyírbátor, Hungary
  • Ágota M. Kornyicki Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, Hospitals and University Teaching Hospital, Health Promotion Department, Nyíregyháza, Hungary
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24365/ef.9246
Keywords: physical activity, healthcare workers, adult population, health development office, workplace health promotion

Abstract

Regular physical activity has been a part of our daily lives since prehistoric times. Owing to the effects of the industrial revolution and urbanization, individuals’ physical activity is constantly decreasing. The European Health Interview Survey 2019 has revealed that a quarter of the Hungarian adults do not exercise enough. The introduced program is a workplace health promotion program. Its primary goal is to relieve fatigue and tension caused by everyday activities and revitalize physical and mental performance and ability. The lifestyle change program series consisted of 81 sessions, each lasting for 60 minutes. The program was available for free in the workplace for healthcare workers. Thirty-one people participated at least once during the program series that lasted nearly for one year. With the help of our semiweekly 60 minutes long health promotion program, the participants who regularly participated in the sessions could reach the optimal amount of physical activity, based on the World Health Organization’s recommendation (75-150 minutes of vigorous-intensity per week).

 

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Published
2022-12-29
How to Cite
Gulyas, I. L., & M. Kornyicki, A. (2022). Health promotion offices’ role in increasing healthcare workers’ physical activity. Health Promotion, 63(4), 47-55. https://doi.org/10.24365/ef.9246
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Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022)
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HPO temathic special issue

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