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Volume 7, Issue 5 (Suppl)
Epidemiology (Sunnyvale), an open access journal
ISSN: 2161-1165
Epidemiology 2017
October 23-25, 2017
EPIDEMIOLOGY & PUBLIC HEALTH
October 23-25, 2017 | Paris, France
6
th
International Conference on
OCCUPATIONAL GROUP’S WORKPLACE SOCIAL CAPITAL AND MENTAL HEALTH:
CONNECTIONS IN EMPLOYEE’S WORKABILITY
Jing Wang
a
, Li Zhang
a
and
Denglai Yu
a
a
Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Pudong New Area, China
Background
: There are a variety of factors from work and daily life who affect the physical and mental health of occupational
groups, then affect their work ability. Social capital as a characteristic of social life includes network, norms and trust.
Researchers have reported that social capital is an important social factor that affects health, but the impact mechanism is not
very clear at present. The purpose of this study is to explore and clarify the connections between workplace social capital and
the physical and mental health of employees and work ability, and to provide new directions and strategies for Occupational
Health Promotion and Workplace Health Management.
Methods
: 3988 employees from 14 workplaces in Pudong New Area were investigated with professional scale questionnaire
through stratified cluster sampling. We used the structural equation modeling to examine the associations between worker’s
basic information, occupational characteristics, physical and mental health, workplace social capital and work ability.
Results
: Worker’s basic information, the physical and mental health and the level of workplace social capital are the direct
influencing factors of work ability, and the employee's self-rated health and mental health level are the most important factors.
In addition, employee’s workplace social capital directly affects their mental health.
Conclusions
: Workplace social capital is an important factor in employee’s health and work ability. Policies and measures for
raising workplace social capital would help improve employee’s mental health level and their work ability. The study provides
an important research direction for Occupational Health Promotion and Workplace Health Management; also it provided a
strong evidence for the measures of improving the team cohesion to increase enterprise productivity.
Biography
Jing Wang, Chief Physician, has her expertise in health education and promotion and passion in improving the health and wellbeing. During more than 20 years,
in her career as Director of the Department of Health Education and Promotion in Shanghai Pudong CDC, she organized and participated in various research
projects of a national and provincial level. For her knowledge ability and seasoning after years of experience in research, practice and administration, she has
been appointed as the member of branches of Chinese Preventive Medicine Association, Shanghai Preventive Medicine Association and Shanghai Physicians'
Association, while holding the title of concurrently tutor in public health, adjunct professor and extramural academic advisor at universities. Majoring in health
education and promotion, she has been studied on theories and models of health-related behaviour intervention among specific population groups for years.
Dozens of related articles and papers are published in core journals and others.
wangjings@
sina.comJing Wang et al., Epidemiology (Sunnyvale) 2017, 7:5(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2161-1165-C1-018