Well-Being through workplace health promotion interventions by European enterprises

Abstract

Well-being and in particular the differences that may exist in the adopted workplace interventions by European enterprises have not yet been addressed in depth by the literature. The objective of this article is to make a comparison between European enterprises in relation to workplace health promotion interventions (WHPI). Five WHPI have been studied: Healthy nutrition interventions, sports activities after working hours, back exercises at work, prevention of addictions and procedures to return to work after a long- term sickness. An exploratory and descriptive study was carried out. The sample was extracted from the ESENER-3 datasets (EU-OSHA, 2019). In total, 45,420 establishments were interviewed. Results show that, differences between countries in terms of the intensity and type of WHPI can be found. Factors that could help explain this heterogeneity could be, on the one hand, the sociocultural context of each country and on the other hand, work environment.