Obesity in the Workplace: A Systematic Review of Barriers and Facilitators to Healthy Lifestyles

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• Personal Author:
  Jackson AT ; Mazzola JJ ; Thiele A
• Description:
  Workplace health promotion has become a major focus for many organizations, but for these efforts to be effective, they need to recognize that there are barriers to individuals choosing and participating in healthy nutrition and physical activity behavior. This systematic review seeks to identify, classify, and discuss several of these barriers, as well as facilitators, integrate important theories that explain their effects on behavior outcomes and provide scientific evidence for their existence and importance in employee health behavior choices. Our search identified 14 articles that sought specifically to identify barriers and/or facilitators to healthy choices in the workplace. An analysis of these barriers and facilitators determined that they could be classified into one of four categories: physical, personal, social, and organizational factors. Suggestions for best practices for utilizing this information for health promotion and future research avenues are also discussed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Health Promotion Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Obesity Barriers Exercise Facilitators Health Health Promotion Nutrition Obesity Physical Exercise Work Environment Worker Health Workers

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• ISSN:
  2367-0134
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Louisiana ; North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 6 ; Tennessee
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  239-264
• Volume:
  3
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20064636
• Citation:
  Occup Health Sci 2019 Sep; 3(3):239-264
• Contact Point Address:
  Joseph J. Mazzola, Department of Psychology, Meredith College, 3800 Hillsborough St, Raleigh, NC, 27607
• Email:
  jjmazzola@meredith.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational Health Science
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:bfb9d56afbb41ee3e3a4b4169d3e34ef5c16cb09b5c631e6dd5eee81ca6a90cca2361a2bdbab3b17da3e589e5558cc1c886f5798de3f95ca7b4b3593865017cb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/223066/cdc_223066_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 574.54 KB ]