The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of a workplace health promotion program (WHPP) in the change of health behaviors among 465 employees in one of the factory in southern Taiwan. All of the program participants were diagnosed as either hypertensives or hyperlipidermics. The researchers was responsible for the design and provision of the WHPP including discussion on smoking, drinking, physical exercise, dietary management, stress management, and medical taking behavior. The WHPP contained a three and half hours conference and the phone call follow up every 2 weeks after the conference for 6 months. The health behaviors before and after the WHPP were analyzed. Structured questionnaires were used to collect data in participants’ smoking and drinking habits, physical exercise, dietary management, stress management, and medication taking behavior. After the program, the results showed that the percentage of the non-smokers increased by 5.7%, the employees taking regular exercise increased by 19.9%, having healthy dietary increased by 20.9%, stress relaxing behaviors increased by 19.2 %, and adherence in drug taking behaviors increased by 18.8%. Improvement of drinking behavior was significantly related to the decrease in body mass index, and body fat among participants (F = 5.739, p < .001; F = 4.15, p < .05; F = 4.51). The participants who conducted regular exercise showed significant lower body fat and waist-buttock ratio than those without regular exercise (F=3.527,p< .05; F=3.024,p<.05). There is a significant correlation between improvement in stress management and decrease in triglyceride level (F = 3.17, p < .05). Further study is needed to evaluate the long-term effects of the WHPP. Key words: workplace health promotion, the change of health behaviors

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