The objective of this thesis is to define the role of employers in the prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases, more precisely to explore the existing effective opportunities for the prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases that employers can provide at workplace. Consequently, find out the attitudes of employers in the Czech Republic to these prevention interventions possibilities in comparison with the attitudes of employees. Finally, demonstrate the effectiveness of the selected prevention tool in a case study of one employer. The theoretical part of the thesis defines the main non-communicable diseases, their prevalence and incidence on a global scale and in the Czech Republic. The main risk factors of these diseases are described with an emphasis on modifiable behavioural risk factors. The review of the latest studies summarizes the evidence-based information on the impact of key behavioural lifestyle factors in the prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases. The possibilities to reduce risk factors of non-communicable diseases by employers are discussed in the analysis of available up-to-date scientific literature. The aim of the analysis was to identify and clearly define the key areas of employers' interventions and find out to what extent the employers in the Czech...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:405242 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Kollerová, Martina |
| Contributors | Lipšová, Vladimíra, Kožená, Ludmila |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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