Potential benefits of occupational health promotion

The importance of workplace health promotion has increased in the past years. This is mainly due to demographic changes; on the one hand because of the increasing aging structure and on the other because of the reduced birth development. In German-speaking countries, the preventive benefits of workplace health promotion interventions have so far not been developed sufficiently enough. Therefore, a review was established and it turned out that especially for the prevention at the entrepreneurial environment, 15 studies from Australia, Great-Britain, Korea, USA, and Denmark were identified, but only one from Germany. It shows that the motion-based studies, which were able to achieve success regarding return on investment, reduced sitting time, e-learning, and physical benefit only represent a small overview. For now it is important to develop a gold standard, which could reach employees who have problems to implement physical activity into their daily life.