The role of the communication campaigns in health promotion and injuries prevention in labour health

Abstract

Introduction: Communication plays an important role in the prevention of professional accidents and in the promotion of healthy working environments. This study aims to analyze the role of communication in occupational health highlighting which areas have been reported more population.

Methodology: This study is based in a systematic review design done between the years 2000 and 2010 in the following databases: ENFISPO, LILACS, Medline, Cuiden Plus and CINAHL. The keywords were “communication” and “occupational health and/or working conditions and/or labour conditions”. The studies that were included followed these designs: experimental, observational, review and experts’ opinions.

Results: Fourteen studies met the inclusion criteria coming from databases from Spain and twelve studies were published in international databases. Communication campaigns which were done around labour health are focused in training to employees, in provide attention to their needs, and to social cohesion, motivation, support to management, team work and good communication. Other factors such as the age, professional situation, working place, activity sector, contact with hard situations and dying, not performing trainings, working in different time frames, violence, depression and the burnout are also relevant areas in communication activities around labour health.

Conclusions: Satisfaction at work items are very important in the campaigns. Communication in labour health is very much linked to prevention. Factors that affect to labour conditions and that can generate accidents at work are frequently delivered to the population. Some studies highlight good communication and social support as the hardest correlation in a healthy work environment.