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Infrastructuring primary prevention outside healthcare institutions: the governance of a Workplace Health Promotion program
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2017
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Workplace Health Promotion (WHP) programs are undergoing significant
changes mixing the healthy lifestyle promotion with the self-tracking opportunities offered
by digital technologies. The shift to more pervasive (or intrusive) forms of primary
prevention for chronic diseases requires to justify the existence of healthcare
infrastructures in work settings and a redefinition of the role of employers and healthcare
institutions. The paper describes and analyses a WHP initiative conducted in Italy to
illustrate the infrastructuring of the governance of technologically-enhanced prevention in
the workplace.