WOMEN, WORK AND HEALTH - ISSUES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR WORKSITE HEALTH PROMOTION

This paper identifies issues related to worksite health promotion prog rams for women by examining ways that work factors, health behaviors, family roles and responsibilities, and women's health are linked. Work conditions may affect women uniquely, as in the case of chemical expo sure affecting reproductive health; disproportionately, such as the in teraction between work and family roles; or differently from men, as i n women's experience of stress in the workplace. The focus is on the d ifferences and uniqueness of working women's health. Drawing on a publ ic health perspective, implications for consideration by worksite heal th promotion programs specialist, human resource managers, and researc hers are presented.