Tips
- The needs and interests of employees can provide valuable information to help guide your program’s design and activities. Consider taking advantage of opportunities for employee input.
- A poor diet is an underlying factor in the development of many health conditions. Making healthy food available at work (PDF-442k) is one way to encourage employees to eat a healthy diet.
- Employees gain health benefits by adding moderate physical activity to their day. A StairWELL for Better Health is an easy and inexpensive way to encourage employees to be more active.
- Many Americans find it difficult to increase their consumption of a variety of fruits and vegetables. Employers can help by making affordable produce more accessible at the workplace.
- The Community Guide provides evidence-based recommendations for population-based public health interventions, including some topics that are relevant to work force health promotion.*
- Limited funding is often one of the biggest challenges facing work force health promotion programs. Consider exploring external funding opportunities to expand your available resources.
- Preventive health screenings, like hypertension screenings, are important and cost-effective health promotion activities.
- There are many continuing education opportunities for those who want to expand their skills and knowledge in work force health promotion topics.
- Health observances are days, weeks, or months devoted to promoting particular health concerns. Consider sponsoring events and activities around specific health observances.
- Nearly half (47%) of working mothers return to work full-time within six months of giving birth. Lactation (breastfeeding) support in the workplace benefits both employer and employee.
- Federal and state planners and administrators of work force health promotion programs can use HWI’s Web board to communicate with each other.
- Surgeon General Reports provide science-based information on timely public health issues. For example, Surgeon General reports on the adverse health consequences of smoking triggered nationwide efforts to prevent tobacco use.
- Healthy People 2010 is a set of health objectives for the United States to achieve over the first decade of the new century. These objectives include two worksite-specific* (PDF-854k) and worksite-related goals.
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Page last reviewed: May 22, 2007
Page last updated: May 22, 2007
Content Source: Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Page last updated: May 22, 2007
Content Source: Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion