[Attitudes of occupational medicine physician towards health promotion].

The objective of the survey was to judge the attitudes of occupational medicine physicians towards health promotion in the workplace. To this end, a special questionnaire has been developed. In total, 142 physicians qualified in preventive medicine were surveyed. Some of them have been working as occupational physicians for six years and some were in the course of specialisation in occupational medicine (the 1st and the 2nd grades). The survey yielded the following results: 84.5% of respondents considered that occupational medicine physicians should be involved in health promotion in the workplace, but only 37.1% of them were ready to undertake individual actions in this area; a large majority of respondents listed the following factors as the main obstacles in initiating health promotion activities: (a) the lack of interest in health promotion among employers (27.5%), (b) the lack of interest in health promotion among employees (25.5%), (c) the lack of time (25.5%), (d) the ack of sufficient financial means for health promotion in the workplace. Only 2.8% of persons reported no problems encountered in their health promotion work in the workplace. In addition, 39.4% of respondents were interested in the organisation and coordination of health promotion programmes in conditions existing nowadays in Poland. To sum up the results of the survey, it is necessary to emphasise a positive observation that the majority of respondents want to participate in health promotion programmes, although they feel that 'know-how' knowledge, professional publications and medical equipment are still far from being satisfactory. Thus, it is deemed necessary to develop further health promotion programmes to encourage positive attitudes towards health promotion among employers and employees.