2011 Awards for Excellence

Citation

(2012), "2011 Awards for Excellence", Health Education, Vol. 112 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/he.2012.142112baa.002

2011 Awards for Excellence

Article Type: 2011 Awards for Excellence From: Health Education, Volume 112, Issue 2

The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for Health Education

"Workplace health promotion within small and medium-sized enterprises''

Ann MooreFaculty of Life and Health Sciences, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, UK

Kader ParahooInstitute of Nursing Research, University of Ulster, Coleraine, UK

Paul FlemingFaculty of Life and Health Sciences, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, UK

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to explore managers' understanding of workplace health promotion (WHP) and experiences of WHP activity within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in a Health and Social Care Trust area of Northern Ireland. The paper aims to focus on engagement with activities within the context of prevention of ill-health and health protection, lifestyle issues and working culture and the environment as defined in the Luxembourg Declaration on WHP.Design/methodology/approach - A Heideggerian interpretive phenomenological methodology is adopted, using in-depth telephone interviews with a purposive sample of 18 SME managers. Data are analysed using Benner's strategy for data analysis.Findings - ``Levels of awareness of WHP activity'' are revealed as a central theme and interpreted as ``high awareness activities'', including the need to: preserve and protect employee health and safety, prevent ill-health and injury and promote employees' quality of daily living, and ``low awareness activities'', including the provision of training and development, human resource management and environmental considerations.Originality/value - An ``Iceberg'' model, grounded in the data, draws attention to the limited awareness of what constitutes WHP activities and the untapped meaningfulness of organisational and environmental activities.

Keywords Small to medium-sized enterprises, Workplace, Welfare, Health and safety requirements, Northern Ireland

www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/09654281011008753

This article originally appeared in Volume 110 Number 1, 2010, pp. 61-76, Health Education

The following articles were selected for this year's Highly Commended Award

"Coaching to enhance quality of implementation in prevention''

Linda Dusenbury, William B. Hansen, Julia Jackson-Newsom, Donna S. Pittman, Cicely V. Wilson, Kathleen Nelson-Simley, Chris Ringwalt, Melinda Pankratz and Steven M. Giles

This article originally appeared in Volume 110 Number 1, 2010, Health Education

"Development of health promoting leadership -- experiences of a training programme''

Andrea Eriksson, Runo Axelsson and Susanna Bihari Axelsson

This article originally appeared in Volume 110 Number 2, 2010, Health Education

"Family structure, mother-child communication, father-child communication, and adolescent life satisfaction: a cross-sectional multilevel analysis''

Kate A. Levin and Candace Currie

This article originally appeared in Volume 110 Number 3, 2010, Health Education

Outstanding Reviewers

Venka SimovskaAarhus University, Denmark

Professor Jim McKennaLeeds Metropolitan University, UK