ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS OF WORKPLACE HEALTH PROMOTION, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS IN RIVERS STATE

Abstract

This paper examined organizational effectiveness of workplace health promotion, challenges and
prospects in Rivers State. Workplace health promotion has been argued to be an effort which
combines the employers, workers, and the public to improve the health and wellbeing of
individuals at work. The work centred on how health promoting programmes should be initiated
in various hospitals and organizations across Rivers State for the health of workers, as well as
their families and individuals within the work environment. The conceptual framework gave
further insight on the definition of workplace health promotion programmes. However,
challenges of workplace health promotion programmes implementation were highlighted to
reveal the lingering barriers to why health promoting activities are mostly ignored in some
organizations. Furthermore, prospects were also deliberated for the initiating and sustainability
of health promoting strategies in hospitals across the state. Finally, recommendations were
proferred amongst which, is that employers should raise awareness among all levels of staff on
the essentials of workplace health promotion programmes as the solution to occupational safety
and better health strategy in the work environment.