Inanspruchnahme von Maßnahmen der betrieblichen Gesundheitsförderung in Deutschland – Ergebnisse der Studie „Gesundheit in Deutschland aktuell“ (GEDA 2014/2015-EHIS)

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Workplace health promotion (WHP) interventions can reach a large part of the population. They are designed to improve work organisation and conditions and to promote the personal competencies of employees. Here the aim was to describe the use of WHP interventions based on individual factors and factors related to the size and branch of the companies. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In the representative population-based study “German Health Update” (GEDA 2014/15-EHIS) conducted by the Robert Koch Institute, 14,389 employees aged between 18 and 64 years were asked about their knowledge and use of workplace measures in their companies during the last 12 months regarding back health, stress management/relaxation and a canteen with healthy food. In addition to socio-demographic factors, health awareness and self-rated health on the use of WHP interventions was analysed. RESULTS: A canteen with healthy food is used by 64.6% of women (F) and 66.2% of men (M); offers for back health (F: 26.2%; M: 18.7%) and stress/relaxation (F: 35.2%; M: 25.6%) are used significantly less. Employees with more pronounced health awareness use the offers more frequently than employees with a less pronounced awareness of health. Men with poor self-rated health make more use of offers for back health and stress/relaxation than men with good self-rated health. CONCLUSIONS: In order to reach a larger part of the working population, WHP measures should take the needs of specific target groups into account including sex/gender and age aspects as well as the extent of employment, health awareness and self-rated health status.