Question

how organizational culture influence health promotion and disease prevention

Answer 1

ANSWER :-

Organizational culture is the behaviour of that organization. Organizational culture includes shared believes and values which influence the thinking, feeling, actions and perception of each members and their interactions.

* Organizational culture is import for employees health protection, promotion and disease prevention since they spend most of their time in the work place.

*Organizational culture should include and encourage healthy environment and health promoting activities.

* Organizations with good employer - employee relationship receives support from leadership and co- workers, which helps to provide a good working environment and reduce stress and anxiety of workers.

* Good working environment and working relationship helps to promote health.

* Organization providing regular health screening, health education sessions, fitness facilities, health coverage policies and stress free environment will be more productive and employees will be more satisfied and healthy with less absentism and sickness.

* Organizational culture should have impact on employees health and health behaviors like enforcing a tobacco free environment, encouraging walking or cycling to reach work place, promoting healthy food habits, and conducting regular health screening for employees etc. These measures helps for health promotion and disease prevention.

* Organizational cultures like providing and strictly using protective equipments like mask, gloves, google's, protective shields and other personal protective equipments helps to prevent industrial diseases and infections.

* Organization should provide health education on hazards of each work and how to prevent them, so that employees are well aware of health impacts and how to protect them.

* Regular health check up and screening of risk group helps for early detection and prevention of diseases.

* Organization or workplace which does not provide all these, the employees will be unhealthy with more absentism and less productivity.

** SO ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE INFLUENCE HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION.