Worksite health promotion (WHP) programs are designed to help identify and address health and lifestyle issues, and are offered by 40–75% of employers in Europe and the US. But research suggests that ...

An article in the August 2008 issue of the American Journal of Public Health suggests one of the government's Healthy People 2010 goals -- to have 75 percent of worksites offering a comprehensive ...

Employers can and should play an important role in improving the health and well-being of millions of American workers by adopting evidence-based health promotion programs and policies. In the U.S., ...

To meet their goal of lowering health care costs, worksite health promotion programs must be well implemented and have strong management support, reports the December Journal of Occupational and ...

This commentary is in response to a January 16, 2013 Health Affairs Blog post entitled “Is It Time to Re-Examine Workplace Wellness ‘Get Well Quick’ Schemes?" by Al Lewis and Vik Khanna. After the ...

Because health care can be their largest expense, companies often search for ways to reduce such costs. “As the cost of health care increases, worksite health promotion programs with evidence-based ...

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 53, No. 12 (December 2011), pp. 1404-1412 (9 pages) Objective: To assess changes in employee productivity impairment observed after the ...

Participants in 'Walk Across Campus,' a program of BC's HEALTHY YOU initiative for faculty and staff. (Lee Pellegrini) Boston College has been named a WorkWell Massachusetts Silver Level winner for ...

Objective: We explored associations between organizational factors (size, sector, leadership support, and organizational capacity) and implementation of occupational safety and health (OSH) and ...

Contributed by Rashaun Roberts, Ph.D. & Paula Grubb, Ph.D., National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Download the PDF. Traditionally, there have been two main approaches that ...

Have you ever wondered why some businesses seem full of employees who are happy, healthy and fit? Take, for example, REI's flagship store in downtown Seattle. Obviously, the merchandise is targeted at ...