Rosmarie Erben The International Conference on "Health Promotion in the Working World" was organized by the Federal Centre for Health Education, Col ogne, in collaboration with the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization, Copenhagen. It was held 7-9 October 1985 in Col ogne, in the Federal Republic of Germany, and brought together 65 partici pants from 12 European countries and Canada. The major role of the working world with regard to the development, maintenance and modification of both individual and collective health-con ducive lifestyles is gaining increasing attention. In addition to the physical and biochemical risks which are the traditional concern of preventive health care, the manifold effects of stress at work and of psychosocial variables have now become the focus of interest. This shift was stimulated by the findings of socioepidemiological research on the relationship between health and lifestyles. The promotion of health at the workplace, including health-conducive lifestyles, is now seen as a necessary complement to measures aimed at reducing or eliminating occupational risks as well as risk behaviour.

I A Conceptual Framework

Introductory Remarks
Health Promotion: A New Approach at the Workplace
Approaches to Holistic Health Promotion at the Workplace
Lifestyle, Stress and Work: Strategies for Health Promotion
Participation: Three Major Obstacles
Workers' Participation: A Key to Health Promotion at the Workplace
II Stress and Stressors
Introductory Remarks
What is Stress?
The Six Major Sources of Stress at Work
New Stressors
Noise: A Leading Cause of Stress
Stress and Illness: What Relationship?
Stress: A Holistic Approach Is Needed
III Coping and Managing Stress
Introductory Remarks
A. At the Personal Level
Resources: A Major Asset in Coping with Stressors
Risk Behaviours as Stress-Coping Strategies: Implications for Intervention
How Women Office Workers Deal with Stress
Self-expression - An Antidote to Stress
B. At the Company Level
Four Major Approaches to Wellbeing
Efforts Must Be Multidimensional
Social Support Through Company Doctors: Is It Possible?
Managing Stress in the Workplace
IV Approaches to Health Promotion at the Workplace
Introductory Remarks
Experiences of Success
A Parcourse for Health Promotion Programs in the Workplace
Activation at the Workplace Through Educational Processes
An Action-Oriented Project in the Timber Industry
A Place Where You Like to Work: Colonia
Health Promotion Through Courses on "Slimming - But Sensibly"
Research into the Feasibility and Impact of Health Promotion in the Work Setting
Health Circles in a Steel Plant Prove an Effective Approach
V Shaping Our Future
Introductory Remarks
Scenarios for Lifestyles and Health
Twenty-one Possible Futures
New Strategies for Health Promotion in the Working World
Some Concluding Remarks.-References.