Workplace Health Promotion Programs: Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation | 1 Edition

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Workplace Health Promotion: From Theory to Practice covers the promotion of employees health in six key areas: behavioral health, physical health, healthy environments, health education, nutritional health, and physical education and activity by linking workplace, healthcare organizations, and communities.  This state-of-the art health book will provide a broad introduction to successful workplace health promotion programs, services, and collaborations to reduce health risks and promote worker performance and success. Building upon this foundation, the book will introduce and explains how to promote employee health across systems and organizations.  The text will emphasize skills needed to promote health at workplaces while providing background information on key health areas. The text presents students with how to recognize opportunities and encourages big-picture thinking and evidence-based decision making to create and promote healthy workplaces. The text focuses on the workplace as a site and employers (workers) as a population.  Presented is a model of workplace health that reflects a range of workplaces and employee populations.  Workplaces include large, mid-sized and small businesses, hospitals, schools and colleges, community organizations, and government offices.  Employee populations are represented by the U.S Department of Labor worker categories (i.e. farming, manufacturing, service...). The text champions evidence-based programs and services that link and balance workplace, community and family resources that are reflective and unique to a workplace and its employees. The text focus is the design, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based workplace health promotion programs to not only improve the health of employees, but also control health care spending.  The text will present evidence showing that workplace health programs have the potential to influence social norms; establish health policies; promote healthy behaviors; improve employees health knowledge and skills; help employees get necessary health screenings, immunizations, and follow-up care; and reduce their on-the-job exposure to substances and hazards that can cause diseases and injury.