Abstract
Recently, it has been recognized as important that public health nurses (PHNs) of the public health insurance societies should contribute not only to individual worker's health but also to healthy workplaces. However, these support processes by PHNs have not been fully elucidated. Therefore, the objective of this study was to clarify the support processes for promoting healthy workplaces by PHNs of general health insurance societies (GHISs) and the related factors. Semi-structured interviews to 6 expert PHNs of GHISs were conducted for clarifying their support processes and the related factors. As the results, three main support processes were identified as follows, "designing strategies and making consensus for workplace health promotion (WHP) activities in GHIS," "establishing reliable relationships with key persons in enterprises, giving them needed support and encouraging employees to conduct WHP activities" and "informing PHNs of GHISs the meaning and the support skills for WHP activities, evaluating and prevailing WHP activities." Also, three main factors were identified, "the factor related to the characteristics of PHNs," "the factor related to the policies of GHISs" and "the factor related to the workplace environments of the insured companies." In the future, it is expected that these findings will contribute to further dissemination of the support activities for WHP by PHNs of GHISs.
