Program duration: 01/01/2005 - 31/12/2007
Development of Education and Training Tool for Workplace Health Promotion focusing on Women – HPROWOMEN
European Commission: Public Health Programme 2004
The aim of the HPROWOMEN project was the development of an educational/ training tool for planning, implementing and evaluating workplace health promotion activities that will enable public health and occupational health professionals to adequately address the issue of occupational risks and hazards that are specific to women, or that women, are more likely to encounter. This educational tool refers to general health promotion at the workplace with the aim of promoting healthy lifestyles, using women as mediators as well as incorporating a complete methodology for risk assessment and with a view to support relevant policy developments at the EU level.
During program implementation, key issues that health promotion for women should address at the workplace, were identified. This knowledge became part of an educational tool which was tested through a pilot training course and disseminated broadly to European Schools of Public Health and Schools which provide training for occupational physicians.
The project is co-funded by the European Commission under the DG SANCO 2003-2008 Public Health Program. It has also been supported by the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation.
The educational tool became a manual published by Springer publications titled "Promoting Health for Working Women"-ISBN 978-0-387-73037-0. To order "Promoting Health for Working Women" contact Springer Publications, www.springer.com or ask major bookstores in your area.
The pilot course content is available on a CDR which can be requested from the University of Athens, Dr Elena Riza: eriza@med.uoa.gr.
With the kind support of:
Services: Preventive Medicine
Project partners
National Kapodistrian University of Athens (Project Coordinator) Country: Greece
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health (Prolepsis) Country: Greece
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health Country: Finland
Institut Municipal d' Investigacio Medical (IMIM) Country: Spain
Dresden University of Technology Country: Germany
Erasmus University Country: Netherlands
Medical University of Sofia Country: Bulgaria
Relative links
http://euprojects.org/hprowomen.org/
