Arbetstidsförlagd och subventionerad träning/motion och effekter på sjukskrivning
During the last Century a tremendously technical advancement has taken place and brought a change in society, which has affected workplaces in a monumental way. Many heavily and moveable physical working tasks at the work placement have been replaced with much easier and sedentary tasks.Two of the major reasons for sick absence in Sweden are illness in the locomotive organs and pain, which can be treated and prevented with physical activity on a large scale. Many employers offer their employees? subsidized exercise cards, which can be used during their free time. A health care exercise hour is one benefit that employers can offer their employees and normally takes place once a week during fully paid working time. A health care hour can be utilized in many different ways, for example: gym-exercise, swimming or Nordic walking.The purpose of the study is to investigate to which extent exercise in either subsidized form or within work time are offered and practiced by employees, and its possible effects on sick-absence in Örebro county. Comparisons are made between men and women, and different types of employers.A quantitative approach was chosen with existing data from the questionnaire ?Life & health 2004?. The respondents were between 20-84 years old. The answering frequency was 63 % of a selection group of 17 160.The results show that women are the ones who mostly receive and make most use of the benefits of doing exercise during working hours or in the subsidized form. The following results also revealed that it is more common for employees in the municipal sector to receive exercise benefits within work time. The employees within the county council make the most out of the benefits and the private employees were the one who used them less. Finally the results show that the employees who have not received any benefits have less sick absence.