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., ...

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A Highmark Inc. study published in the March/April edition of the American Journal of Health Promotion found that health care costs rose at a 15 percent ...

May is National Employee Health and Fitness Month. The goal of National Employee Health and Fitness Month is to promote the benefits of a healthy lifestyle to employers and their employees through ...

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 ...

Using a novel approach, we provide a preliminary “snapshot” of how the comprehensiveness of workplace cardiovascular health initiatives is related to measures of employees’ health risks, disease ...

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 ...

Healthcare costs rose at a 15 percent slower rate among participants in a worksite wellness program, which translates to $332 in savings per participant, according to a study sponsored by Highmark and ...

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 ...