Objectives:

Cardiovascular disease is often caused by bad habits, and health promotion at work includes policies and activities designed to help workers control their own health and improve it. The objective of this study was the research of health promotion strategies in Comunidad de Madrid public hospitals to make improvements in the future in the areas with deficient results.

Material and Methods:

A descriptive observational prospective study was carried out with a email survey at 10 public hospitals in Comunidad de Madrid. The questionnaire that was used is the Move Europe available in Spanish at the INSST web page. Qualitative variables description was done with absolute frequency and percentages.

Results:

The survey response rate was 100%. A very low percentage of centres that reached “good practices” was found: “Policy and Culture” (40%), “Smoking” (50%), “Nutrition” (10%), “Physical Activity” (0%) and “Stress” (0%). Only one hospital obtained “good practices” consideration in three areas, two hospitals in two areas, three hospitals in one area, and four of them didn´t obtain that classification in any of the areas.

Conclusions:

The health promotion strategies implemented in the evaluated Comunidad de Madrid hospitals are not enough in all the studied areas. It can be considered that in all of this matters it could be possible to start strategies to promote improvement of them, especially in “Physical Activity”, “Stress” y “Nutrition” that are the most deficient.

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