Health Promoting Hospitals AND Physical Activity

Background and Aim:Hospitals are vital setting environments for health promotion. Health Promotion Hospitals' concept hasa firm grounding in health-oriented efforts. From the viewpoint of health promotion, Hospitals have asignificant impact, nonstop and lifelong on the health of staff members. The health of staff is crucial insuch an expert organization. Physical inactivity has been identified as a great public health concernworldwide and the evidence confirms that the hospital staff is engaging less in physical activity. Sincehealth professionals are in a better position to promote physical activity among their clients, this putshospital staff in the best position to advocate and encourage their clients’ participation in physicalactivity, so empowering staff for behaving more actively is essential.The hospital organization is responsible for developing a supportive, health-promoting, andempowering setting for staff’s physical activity. These services can support individuals to followgeneral health-promoting policies of the hospital, therefore, hospitals can attempt to improve itspotential health impact like a smoke-free hospital, provision of gyms and physical activity facilitiesaround the hospital, availability of public active transportation, getting bonus and discounts fromsports centers, enable staff to fulfill their interested exercises, financial support, guiding to involveexercises depend upon individual characteristics, staff-friendly working hours of gyms and sportscenters for hospital employees, try to improve living conditions of health providers, and preparingappropriate circumstance to participate in community exercise events. Education and training for staffsports skills and leadership for agenda-setting and creating resources must be concentrated. Alsonetworking with health service providers and other stakeholders in the community should be activelypursued.Methods:Electronic Search was conducted in Persian and English databases. The search was done IranMedex,SID, ISI Web of Knowledge, PubMed, Scopus, and Science Direct with the following keywords andassociated articles selected.Results:Hospitals have the potential role to increase staff’s health by improving health-related lifestyles.Physical activity is well recognized but not always adequately rewarded in working regulations suchas hospitals. The added value of Health Promoting Hospitals is to draw attention to empower staffthrough healthy behaviors.Conclusion: It is important to give a prominent role to the physical activity of hospital personnel. Toachieve higher success to adopt a total health promotion approach related to physical activity, ofcourse, it would be very helpful if the treatment-oriented policy changes to a health-centered policy.

کلیدواژه ها:

Health Promoting Hospital ، Physical Activity