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Learn More about Worksite Wellness

Return on investment

• Worksite Wellness at PreventDisease.com provides examples of companies saving money in a variety of areas due to wellness programs at the worksite.
• Healthy Workforce 2010 covers all aspects of worksite wellness, including return on investments, planning programs and the Healthy People 2010 objectives

Cost of Chronic Disease

• Prevention Makes Common "Cents": Information on the cost of obesity, diabetes, CVD, asthma, and tobacco use to employers, and a listing of businesses promoting health and disease prevention.

Chronic Diseases

• Chronic Diseases and Conditions
• Cardiovascular disease:
  • Heart Disease
  • CDC Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention - At A Glance 2006
• Diabetes in New York State
• Cancer
• Disability and Health in New York State

Starting a wellness program

• Steps for Starting a Worksite Wellness Program: Provides information, resources, and tools for conducting wellness programs.
• Health Promotion Guide: Step-by-step guide for planning wellness programs.
• Healthy Workforce 2010, Section IV, pp. 29-31.
• Sample employee interest surveys:
  • Worksite Wellness Employee Interest Survey
  • Needs & Interest Survey

Promoting Biking

• The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) provides information on all aspects of bicycling.

Stair Climbing Promotions

• StairWELL to Better Health: Provides assistance for increasing stairwell use from aesthetics to measuring usage.
• Stairway to Health: Planning guide for a stair climbing challenge at the worksite. Success stories, free point of choice downloadable posters, tips on generating interest and promoting the program.

Physical Activity Promotions

• America On the Move: A program to help individuals be more active and eat less. The goals are 2,000 more steps and 100 less calories a day to stop weight gain.
• 10,000 Steps Program: Program encourages people to build up to walking 10,000 steps a day.
• The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports: Provides information on the President's Challenge.

Food labeling laws

• A Food Labeling Guide, Appendix A: Food and Drug Administration guidelines for food labeling such as fat-free, reduced-fat, low-sodium, sugar-free, and other claims.

Promoting CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)

• Just Food is a non-profit organization that works to set-up community supported agriculture (CSA) in the New York City region.
• The Robyn Van En Center for CSA Resources has a database of CSA farms searchable by ZIP code.

Guidelines for Meetings

• Guidelines for Healthy Meetings: Simple guidelines for serving healthful foods and adding physical activity opportunities to meetings.
• Guidelines for Offering Healthy Foods at Meetings, Seminars and Catered Events: Detailed rationale for healthful foods at meetings and specific guidelines for what types of foods to serve at various meals and snacks.
• Nutrition Policy Profiles: Examples of field-tested nutrition policies and promotional strategies at worksites which were found to be successful in increasing heart-healthy eating

Conducting a Milk Taste Test

• Taste test how-to and response sheet
• 1% Or Less Campaigns: Provides information about the rationale for consuming low-fat milk and a tool kit.

Promoting Vegetables and Fruits

• The 5 to 9 A Day Program provides fact sheets, brochures, and ideas for promotion.
• The CDC's 5 A Day provides tips, recipes, and research supporting eating 5 – 9 servings of vegetables and fruits a day.

Making Worksites Smoke-free

• Making Your Workplace Smokefree - A Decision Maker's Guide: Provides information from policies to patches for helping employees not smoke.
• NYSDOH provides brochures, information about the Clean Indoor Air Act and facts sheets about tobacco use.
• SmokeFree.com provides free smoking-related information, and lists free or low-cost local smoking cessation programs.
• The American Cancer Society is a good resource for information on smoking cessation.

Additional Resources

Nutrition and Physical Activity

• California Project LEAN: Series of programs and activities to promote nutrition through environmental and policy interventions.
• The Community Guide: A compilation of evidence-based strategies to promote nutrition and physical activity.

Minorities

• An Employer Toolkit: Reducing Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities: Outlines the business case for employers to address health disparities for racial/ ethnic minorities in their workforce. Guidelines are offered for establishing standard of care for ethnic and racial minorities affected by cardiovascular disease and diabetes, and negotiating for these services when purchasing health insurance.
• Heart and Vascular Diseases: Fact sheets, recipes, heart-healthy information targeting minorities.

Worksite Wellness for Diabetes

• Business and Managed Care Diabetes Health Resource Kit: A business case for diabetes programs at the worksite.
• National Diabetes Education Program: Offers diabetes prevention and management information tailored for businesses, patient educators, and a variety of ethnic and racial groups.