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Eliza Goszczynska, PH. D, public health specialist in the National Center for Workplace Health Promowion which is one of departments of the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine (Łódź, Poland). It consists of the interdisciplinary team of researchers in sociology of health and medicine, public health, pedagogy and journalism. The main areas of the scientific interest of NCWHP are as follows: • beliefs, attitudes, activities and lifestyles with relation to health – their social diversity and conditions; • development and conditions (such as cultural, political, social and psychological ones) of practices in the field of health promotion undertaken in various areas and at different levels of the social system. The main ongoing scientific activities of NCWHP in the field of workplace health promotion: • the regular analysis of health behaviours and awareness of the Polish society (with the emphasis on employees and health inequalities); • representative studies of activities in the field of health promotion in the Polish enterprises (repetition of these studies since 90s of the XXth century has led to the development of a unique database on this issue in Poland); • the regular monitoring of macro social conditions for health promotion of the working population in Poland. Research in this area includes analysis of i.e. legal framework, employers’ and managers’ attitudes, activities of institutions and professionals responsible for health promotion (this work allowed for the comprehensive evaluation of obstacles and conducive factors for health promotion in Poland and its regular updates). As far as implementation activities are concerned these are as follows: • development of methodology and tools (know-how) of preparation and evaluation of health promotion initiatives (i.e. programmes, strategies) in enterprises; • consulting health promotion projects in various organizations, especially companies, • animating the Polish Network for Workplace Health Promotion which gathers institutions active in the field of workplace health promotion (in 2001 it was incorporated into the structures of the European Network for Workplace Health Promotion); • launching the Network of Managers of Health Promotion at Work (it was started in 2018 and currently focuses more than 110 managers); • development of rules of awarding managers for their engagement and achievements in the field of workplace health promotion (three levels of the certificate: brown, silver and gold); • development and conducting trainings for professionals in methodology of implementation of workplace health promotion programmes; • creating social and political support for health promotion on working population at the regional and central level; • popularisation of the idea of workplace health promotion via developing scientific papers and educational materials (also at the international level); NCWHP has published over 250 papers and 16 books. In 2009 the scientific activities of NCWHP were awarded by World Health Organisation. The Prize for Research in Health Promotion was handled during the Sixty-second World Health Assembly in Geneva.
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