Att förstå friskvård och hälsa ur ett individperspektiv : Intervjuer med anställda inom verkstadsindustrin

• Main Author: Nilsson, Kristin
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Umeå universitet, Pedagogiska institutionen
• Subjects: health; health education; health in the workplace; health promotion; hälsa; friskvård; hälsa på arbetsplatsen; hälsofrämjande insater
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-57836

The aim of this qualitative study was to give an deeper understanding of how employees in the engineering industry experienced health education and how they understood and gave meaning to the terms health and health education. The study was based on interviews with eight men and women who participated in a health education project which had been held on their workplace. When the study took place the interviewees were in the age between 28 and 58 years. The results indicate that the employees understood health as a combination of both physical and psychological factors. The positive aspects described by the interviewees based on their experiences from the project were increase physical activities and that the project had helped them to get a better diet. In some cases the interviews had divided experiences about different parts of the project, but overall the result show that the interviewees were convinced that the project had helped them to improve their health and that the company was likely to benefit from the employees' improved health through reduced absenteeism and higher production.