Objectives: The purpose of this study is to investigate the current status and its effects of staff health promotion among hospitals in Taiwan.
Methods: This study sent out 166 questionnaires to medical centers, regional hospitals and small district hospitals, the response rate is 52.4%. The statistical analyses include one way ANOVA, birariate analysis and multiple regressions by using SPSS.
Result: The top three events of hospital staff health promotion are smoking cessation (83.6%), working environment safety (67.2%) , and weight control-exercise (52.5%) in 2009. The only change in 2010 is stress management and mental health become number three (55.7%). HPH member hospital implemented more events and activities as well as had better performance than non-HPH membership hospitals. The multiple regression analyses show that hospital status, ownership, size, and HPH member are significant in explaining staff health promotion performance.
Conclusions: Most hospitals have implemented many staff health promotion activities but the performance evaluations are still scarce. In order to effectively improve staff health top managers need to pay attention to health education and follow up evaluation.
