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Article summary

The article by Hughes examines the progression for decision making for the implementation and constant programs of promotion of health at small to midsized businesses. This helps in informing researchers and health promotion practitioners in the marketing of their services to the firms. The researchers conduct qualitative interviews, which includes 24 employers situated in the Pacific Northwest region. The employees vary from 75 to 800 staff members (Hughes et al., 2011). Besides, the majority of employers have 100 to 200 workers. Small to midsized organizations rely mostly on success-related facets of the company as opposed to humanitarian intentions when choosing whether to adopt promotion programs of workplace health. These employers also depend significantly on health insurers for the promotion of health. Besides, they desire more information regarding the real costs and programs of cost benefits.

According to the article, companies from a small to midsized business research database were recruited in Pacific’s northwest’ Puget Sound region. The firm varies in size ranging from 2 to 999 staff members. The database encompasses two companies’ sets, which comprised of organizations that declined to take part in nutrition intervention and physical activity provided by a research organization based in Seattle. It also includes firms that took part in a response that addressed the consumption of vegetables and fruit. It was delivered by a similar research organization based in Seattle in the 1990s (Hughes et al., 2011). The interviewer took notes during the interview process and recorded other observations immediately after conducting the interviews. 41 % of participants agreed to take part in the study out of the 63 firms that were contacted.

Article strengths

The article's strength is the access it offers to the viewpoints of the employer, which is useful for understanding the process of decision making for enhancement of health at small to midsized firms. Besides, employers form various industries and employing workers of different age groups, and income took part in the study. As a result, this permitted the study findings to extend past just a single entity to an income class. Further, the authors made modifications to their interview guide based on the response from their research center's public health group, statistical researchers, and marketing. Numerous informal pilot interviews help in bettering the questions and eradicating health research jargon and redundancy.

Article limitations

One of the significant weaknesses of the study is the use of self-reported data. The low rate of response of 41% is still a principal concern, even though several companies were interviewed in a bid to gather all views. Besides, participation by the employers was voluntary. Therefore, these companies might already have significant interests in the promotion of health than their fellow firms who did not take part in the study. Nonetheless, this weakness may be balanced since most of the firms in the study sample had, in some instances, declined to participate in the nutrition intervention and physical activity provided by the research organization based in Seattle. The sampling in the study may add varying points of view to the literature where studies usually sample firms that already have interests in suggested interventions. The viewpoints of these companies may not necessarily represent the whole populace of firms in the United States. Another limitation is that the sample in the study was obtained from one region of the United States. The interviews were done in the Pacific Northwest and consisted of 24 employers with employers between 100 and 200 in their organizations. Besides, the study restricted the quantitative analysis to response tabulation without any statistical assessment. It alsoselectively included distinct quotations that were a valid representation of the spirit of other quotes within a similar theme.

The article only included three participants from the list since the list mostly included ineligible firms for the study due to the size. The other 21 firms were organizations that rejected the idea of taking part in the nutrition intervention and physical activity that was provided by the research organization based in Seattle.

Usefulness as a source for a final paper

The article enhances the understanding of the type of research used in the study. For instance, the qualitative research used offers an in-depth understanding of how individuals or companies understand, act, and subsequently manage their everyday situations in specific settings. The study also assesses' the interventions' effectiveness that focuses on changing what exists. For instance, the article helps in understanding the health promotion programs put in place, consequently informing researchers and health promotion practitioners in the marketing of their services to these businesses. The qualitative research also helps in generating proposals for improvement ways. It also makes recommendations for prospective new research areas. For instance, it helps companies understand health promotion strategies and programs.

The article will be a useful source in the final paper since it is entirely authoritative and credible. This is because the readers can verify the facts from the paper that has included references in its research. As a result, it impacts the general quality of the work, making it reliable and enhanced with truths and facts due to its clarity. Citation of the article to a final paper as a source also helps in providing support or proof for the ideas in the final document. It will reveal to the reader the location of the evidence or assistance, which is typically achieved by providing a bibliography reference, a detailed bibliographic information list provided at the end of the paper (Mooney, 2011). Besides, using the document as a source in the final research offers appropriate credit for the authors of the concepts that were integrated into the paper. It also allows the readers to locate the sources quickly, which will help them learn more about the ideas included in the source. Lastly, the use of the article provides clarity on multifaceted topics by making the paper easier to understand. Citing will also help in the practical organization of the final research, subsequently assisting the reader in finding the information quickly from the source, which is crucial in research evaluation.

References

Hughes, M. C., Patrick, D. L., Hannon, P. A., Harris, J. R., & Ghosh, D. L. (2011). Understanding the decision-making process for health promotion programming at small to midsized businesses. Health Promotion Practice, 12(4), 512-521.

Mooney, H. (2011). Citing data sources in the social sciences: do authors do it?. Learned Publishing, 24(2), 99-108.