Program duration: 01/05/2007 - 01/05/2009
Guidelines for the Prevention of Obesity at the Workplace – GPOW
European Commission: Public Health Program 2006
Recognizing that, during the last decades, obesity has developed to a major public health problem that affects a big part of the population, the project aimed at exploring the range of the problem at a European level, identifying the obesogenic factors and proposing ways to resolve the problem.
More specifically, the project focused on obesity at the workplace as, due to contemporary lifestyle conditions, individuals spend many hours working. Moreover, the workplace environment is considered as one of the basic factors that can lead to obesity.
More analytically, GPOW aimed to encourage stakeholders to adopt policies for the prevention of obesity as well as to promote measures for the improvement of obesogenic working conditions. As part of this aim, a set of guidelines were proposed for the prevention of obesity at workplace enhancing the implementation of counter-obesity strategies.
It is a project under the DG SANCO 2003-2008 Public Health Program co-funded by the European Commission. The project was also supported by Titan Cement Factory.
With the kind support of:
Services: Preventive Medicine
Project partners
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health, PROLEPSIS (Project Coordinator) Country: Greece
Technische Universitat Dresden – (TUD) Country: Germany
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health – (FIOH) Country: Finland
A.S.O. SAN GIOVANNI BATTISTA DI TORINO – SC EPIDEMIOLOGIA DEI TUMORI-CPO Country: Italy
INNOVAMED Medical and Educational Development (INNOVAMED) Country: Hungary
National Nutrition Centre (NNC) Country: Lithuania
Univerzita Karlova v Praze (UCPRA) Country: Czech Republic
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine (NIOM) Country: Poland
Fundatia Romtens Country: Romania
Cyprus International Institute for the Environment and Public Health in association with Harvard School of Public Health (CII) Country: Cyprus