Universität Wien

230113 VO Health and Health Promotion in Organisational Settings (2015S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 23 - Soziologie
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Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 05.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 19.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 26.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 16.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 23.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 30.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 07.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 21.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 28.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 11.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 18.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

There are several reasons why Sociologists should be especially interested in the relationship of health and organisations. In a Society of Organisations, health impacts of these settings gain increasing relevance, and health gains more and more attention in today;s society labelled as a Health Society by some. So interest also in health impacts of settings dominated by organisations like schools, hospitals, long-term care units, offices, factories etc. increases; we want to know more about risks and potentials. And also interest increases how we can influence this impact in a positive direction. Health promotion has evolved as new strategy to influence health in the last 30 years, sponsored by WHO in many forms, developing policy contexts, professional practice and scientific knowledge. Sociology has contributed a lot, particularly concerning the Settings Approach. Many of these settings in which we live our everyday life and heavily impact on our health are controlled or at least influenced by organisations. Intervention strategies of the Settings Approach focus on determinants that are influenced by organisational functioning, trying to optimize in a health promoting directiion.
Inputs and discussions will include the following issues:
-an extended understanding of health
- theoretical and empirical knowledge on impacts of organisations on health
- the concept of Settings
- Strategies for health promotion in organisational settings, examples from schools, business companies, hospitals and long-term care facilities
- Empirical research on the settings approach: Type and function of research (needs assessment, diagnosis, evaluation, impact analysis, action research etc.), design and methods
- Health Promotion as strategy to extend social control? A critical reflection

Assessment and permitted materials

Regular participation in sessions and discussions; written exam at the end

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Development of a scientifically based understanding of the relationship of health and organisation and of health promotion as intervention strategy. Focus on the settings approach.
Especially relevant also with reference to the option of a Master Thesis in the field of health and organisation a basic orientation on the current state of resarch will be provided, focussing on specific settings like schools, business companies, hospitals and long-term care facilities; understanding different task for resarchers like conceptualization, needs assessment/ diagnosis; evaluation.

Examination topics

Lecture and discussion in various forms of communication, supported by scientific literature

Reading list

Basistexte
Krajic, K., Cichocki, M., & Quehenberger, V. Health Promoting Residential Aged Care: A Pilot Project in Austria. Accepted for Publication in: Health Promotion International. Advance Publication March 30, 2014. doi: 10.1093/heapro/dau012
Pelikan, Jürgen M. (2007): "Gesundheitsförderung durch Organisationsentwicklung. Ein systemtheoretischer Lösungszugang.", in: Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung, 2007(2), pp. 74-81.;
Pelikan, Jürgen M. (2011). Zur Entwicklung eines gesundheitsfördernden Settings. In W.Dür & R. Felder-Puig (Eds.), Lehrbuch Schulische Gesundheitsförderung (pp. 63-72). Bern: Hans Huber.
Grossmann Ralph, Scala Klaus Gesundheit durch Projekte fördern: Ein Konzept zur Gesundheitsförderung durch Organisationsentwicklung und Projektmanagement, Juventa; 5. Auflage. (Februar 2011) (1.Auflage 1994)

Vertiefende Texte (Vorläufige Liste; Aktualisierte Liste wird im Verlauf der LV zur Verfügung gestellt!)
Baric, Leo/Conrad, Günter (1999): Gesundheitsförderung in Settings. Konzept, Methodik und Rechenschaftspflichtigkeit zur praktischen Anwendung des Settingsansatzes der Gesundheitsförderung. Gamburg: Verlag für Gesundheitsförderung.;
Dooris, M. 2005. Healthy settings: challenges to generating evidence of effectiveness. Health Promotion International, 21, (1) 55-65Accessed 24 February 2006.
Dooris, M. 2006. Health promoting settings: future directions. Promotion & Education, XIII, (1) 4-5Accessed 5 September 2006.
Dooris, Mark/Poland, Blake/Kolbe, Lloyd/De Leeuw, Evelyne/McCall, Douglas S./Wharf-Higgins, Joan (2007): "Healthy Settings. Building Evidence for the Effectiveness of Whole System Health Promotion - Challenges and Future Directions.", in: McQueen, David V./Jones, Catherine M. [Eds.]: Global Perspectives on Health Promotion Effectiveness.; pp. 327-352. New York: Springer;
Dooris, M. & Doherty, S. 2010. Healthy universities - time for action: a qualitative research study exploring the potential for a national programme. Health Promotion International, 25, (1) 94-106 available from: http://heapro.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/1/94
Green, Lawrence W., Poland, Blake, Rootman, Irving: The Settings Approach to Health Promotion. In: Poland, Blake D./Green, Lawrence W./Rootman, Irving [Eds.] (2000): Settings for Health Promotion: Linking Theory and Practice. Newbury Park: Sage Publications; p1-43

Kühl, Stefan (2011): Organisationen. Eine sehr kurze Einführung. VS Verlag Wiesbaden
Quehenberger V, Cichocki M, Krajic,K: Sustainable effects of a low-threshold physical activity intervention on health-related quality of life in residential aged care. In: Clinical Interventions in Aging, November 2014 Volume 2014:9 Pages 1853—1864
Dooris, M. 2001. The "Health Promoting University": a critical exploration of theory and practice. Health Education, 101, (2) 51-60Accessed 21 September 2007.
Dooris, M. 2003, "Healthy settings: theory and practice.," In Healthy Settings in England's North West: Report of Conference., M. Dooris & A. Hobbs, eds., Preston: University of Central Lancashire.
Pelikan, J. M., Dietscher, C., Krajic, K., & Nowak, P. 2005, "18 Core Strategies for Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH)," In Health Promotion in Hospitals: Evidence and Quality Management, O. Groene & M. Garcia-Barbero, eds., World Health Organization, pp. 46-63.
Pelikan, J.M., Krajic, K., & Dietscher, C. 2001. The health promoting hospital (HPH): concept and development. Patient Education and Counseling, 45, (4) 239-243 available from: www.elsevier.nl/locate/pateducou Accessed 28 January 2002.

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