Letter - Workplace health promotion and pedometers: response to Hess, Borg and Rissel

Abstract

Despite the importance of their concluding call for workplace health promotion interventions focusing on male employees in the healthcare sector, the report by Hess, Borg and Rissel1 raises concerns about the design of current workplace health promotion programs. Specifically, the program that they describe ? the TEAM Challenge at Liverpool Hospital ? risks being regarded an example of how in health promotion, as in history, those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.