Table 1. Definitions of the culture of health dimensions [2,5].
Dimension | Definition |
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Senior leadership | Expressed vision and resource allocation from the senior leaders indicating the employee’s health is a priority for the organization |
Policies and procedures | Alignment to support and accomplish vision in matters of health; and serves as a catalyst to allow employees to benefit from available resources |
Programs | Initiatives and programs to support and improve employee health |
Supervisor support | Encouragement, concern, and support from supervisors regarding a support for individual health and health promotion initiative |
Coworker Support | Encouragement and support from peers regarding health |
Role modeling | Other’s practice of healthy behaviors or setting health as a priority; living evidence that certain achievements are possible |
Mood | Employee attitudes, feelings, and perceptions that can influence motivation; mood can enhance or inhibit program participation |
Values* | In general, values stem from the leaders of an organization, and are then cultivated among managers and employees. In a culture of health, employee health tends to be viewed as having intrinsic worth and is related to the organization’s success. |
* Note: Values was added according to the latest revision of the workplace culture of health scale.