Helsingborg ? Ängelholm, en jämförelse mellan kommunernas friskvårdsarbete för sina läraranställda.
AbstractAuthorJohanna Rahl and Marie Johansson.TitleHelsingborg-Ängelholm, a comparison of the work of the municipalities regarding self generated health care activities for employed teachers.ContentToday you pay more and more attention to self generated health care. Political decisions affect the social development and thereby also conditions for people to feel healthy. As the municipalities are working with its inhabitants they are an important part of the self generated health care activities. The most part of our life we spend in school or at work and this is the reason why these places are the most suitable to create healthy people. From these thoughts we created the following aim of the study:?The aim of this study is to investigate what kind of work regarding self generated health care that is performed by the municipalities of Helsingborg and Ängelholm towards the employed teachers and how the teachers apprehend this work. Beside we will compare the municipalities and the selected schools and look for differences and similarities. Using actual knowledge about self generated health care we will support with thoughts how to develop the work for better self generated health care.?To answer the aim we have done 20 interviews of teachers, headmasters, responsible for human resources in the municipality, project leader for ?Hälsovägen? as well as responsible for Child and Youth committee, all working within Helsingborg and Ängelholm municipalities.Our result shows that there is an ongoing work regarding self generated health care in both municipalities, even though it is different. In Ängelhom there is a policy regarding self generated health care, including 1000 SEK as a subsidy for these kinds of activities, among a lot of other things for the employees. The municipality also arrange special health congresses and other projects regarding self generated health care. In Helsingborg the subsidy is 2000 SEK a year, together with a health care card with discounts. The municipality in Helsingborg also has a well developed team work with ?Hälsoborgen?, the towns` answer to the company?s health care. This is missing in the municipality of Ängelholm, who instead has progressed a lot more regarding the self generated health care activities for the employed teachers. The most used part is the subsidy of the self generated health care activities; however this part must be paid by the schools themselves. This will lead to the schools reducing both the number of employees as well as materials to the pupils.Theories regarding self generated health care and health focus on the importance to affect people physical, psychological and social. The municipalities we have compared are still working more on the physical part. It is not enough to have a good physique if you don?t feel good both psychologically and socially. This is something to think about for both of the municipalities, when they evaluate their self generated health care work. Helsingborg and Ängelholm need to enlarge their views concerning self generated health care, through learning from each other.Key wordsHelsingborg municipality, Ängelholm municipality, employed teachers, ill-health, health and self generated health care.