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BACKGROUND: With recent increase in focus on population-based interventions in workplaces, targeting lifestyle risk factors for chronic disease, there is a need to ensure that interventions maximise total reach while still reaching more disadvantaged groups within the workforce. This requires assembling information on NSW workforce and health risks data in a way that is useful to guide planning in health promotion. This paper aims to describe the NSW workforce by employer size, industry divisions, occupation classification, geographic location and risk factor prevalence. METHODS: Data from a unique combination of public and non-publicly available data sets was used to describe the NSW workforce by demographic, setting-specific variables and risk factor prevalence. RESULTS: NSW represents 31% of Australia's workforce. Large employers represent 1% of businesses but employ 33% of the NSW workforce. Reaching large numbers of NSW workers can be achieved by targeting large employers in metropolitan regions; however, a high proportion of workers with multiple health risks are located in non-metropolitan areas and industries that have a high proportion of small employers. CONCLUSIONS: The workplace as a setting for population based health promotion interventions provides a number of challenges due to the fragmented nature and dispersed distribution of the workforce.
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Implementación de Plan de Salud/métodos , Promoción de la Salud/organización & administración , Promoción de la Salud/estadística & datos numéricos , Salud Laboral/estadística & datos numéricos , Lugar de Trabajo/estadística & datos numéricos , Adolescente , Adulto , Femenino , Conductas Relacionadas con la Salud , Promoción de la Salud/métodos , Humanos , Estilo de Vida , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Nueva Gales del Sur , Ocupaciones , Factores de Riesgo , Factores Socioeconómicos , Adulto JovenRESUMEN
The Lower Hunter Regional Strategy prepared by the Hunter Department of Planning identifies how development in the region will be managed on a sustainable basis over the next 25 years. In order to inform decision-makers about the potential social and health impacts arising from the proposed population increase, the Hunter Regional Coordination Management Group, in collaboration with the NSW Premier's Department and Hunter New England Health, completed an equity-focussed social impact assessment of the strategy. The assessment illustrates how equity can be systematically addressed within an impact assessment process and provides insight into the mechanisms which led to equity considerations influencing the policy and planning agenda.