A project carried out by the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), through GENUD Toledo Research Group, and Red Eléctrica of Spain, has obtained for the second consecutive year the second prize in the NAOS Strategy Award for the Workplace. With this award, the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality recognise the activity carried out by the team, managed by the teachers Ignacio Ara and Luis Alegre, in the evaluation of the levels of physical activity, idleness, and lifestyle of operator workers.
Within the framework of an agreement concluded in 2015, the group GENUD Toledo, with the help of Garmin Iberia and Biwel Salud Empresarial, has carried out an evaluation of the lifestyle of the workers working for Red Eléctrica of Spain SAU as a preliminary step to be able to initiate improvement programmes through physical exercise. The award-winning project is titled; ‘Red Eléctrica Empresa Saludable: implementación de planes de intervención basados en ejercicio físico individualizado y en asesoramiento dietético-nutricional personalizado para trabajadores con alto riesgo cardiovascular y/o sobrepeso’ (work related to the implementation of intervention plans based on individualised physical activity and personalised dietetic-nutritional advice for workers with a high cardiovascular risk and/or risk of being overweight’).
The Ministry of Health has been awarding the NAOS Strategy Award for the Workplace since 2007 in order to distinguish people, or organisations, that promote healthy eating or the increase in the practice of physical activity, in accordance with the established objectives in the ‘NAOS Strategy’. 71 projects came together in the tenth edition which took place at the end of March. After the shortlisting, which was carried out by The Spanish Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition (AECOSAN), 25 were presented to the members of the jury as finalists. From these emerged the seven winners and the secondary awards corresponding to the 2016 competition.
GENUD Toledo Research Group, which carries out its work from the Faculty of Sports Science of Toledo, has an extensive amount of experience in the field of physical activity and its relation with health and lifestyles in different communities. Five years ago, the group received the NAOS Strategy Award for the Workplace in the Health Sector as a result of a project developed in collaboration with Hospital Severo Ochoa and the Leganés City Council, an initiative pioneered in Spain by coordinating the actions of three public entities in the fight against childhood obesity.
Office of Communications, Toledo, April 4, 2017.