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Challenges to Mental Health Promotion Among Working Women in Canada

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
April 1993

Abstract

Health promotion efforts have concentrated on promoting physical well-being with psychological benefits perhaps most often among men. With greater proportions of women now working, the workplace provides excellent opportunities for health promotion and education for women. Given increasing recognition that stress, multiple roles, and inadequate job rewards result in loss of productivity, absenteeism, illness, addiction, and premature death, it seems time to explore workplace programs of mental health promotion aimed specifically toward women workers. In this paper, current knowledge about the mental health problems experienced by working women is outlined. Some principles on which mental health promotion programs for women in the workplace might build are specified.

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Les efforts de promotion de la santé misant sur l'amélioration de la condition physique comme facteur positif de bien-être psychologique se sont développés le plus souvent, chez les hommes. Compte tenu de la proportion accrue maintenant des femmes au travail, le milieu de travail constitue un cadre par excellence pour la promotion et l'éducation à la santé chez les femmes. On reconnaît de plus en plus les effets négatifs du stress, des rôles multiples, et des faibles satisfactions au travail, entraînant des pertes de productivité, l'absentéisme, la maladie, la dépendance aux drogues, et la mortalité précoce: il semble qu'il soit grand temps d'étudier les programmes de promotion de santé en milieu de travail destinés spécifiquement aux femmes. Cet article présente une revue de littérature récente sur les problèmes de santé mentale vécus par les femmes au travail et identifie quelques principes spécifiques à partir desquels des programmes de promotion de la santé pour les femmes peuvent étre élaborés.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 12Number 1April 1993
Pages: 201 - 210

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Version of record online: 2 May 2009

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Susan A. McDaniel

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