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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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., ...

Feb. 28, 2011 | Pittsburgh, Pa. - 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 slower rate ...

In the U.S., over 150 million adults go to work daily and spend the majority of their waking hours engaged in some form of employment. Prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the ...

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 56, No. 6 (June 2014), pp. 639-644 (6 pages) Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of a worksite wellness program in decreasing health risk ...

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 ...

When planning program interventions, worksite health promotion professionals should be concerned about whether the program will attract people, from all job and demographic groups of employees.

The goal of the program is to help employers assess their health promotion efforts and build strategies to address nutrition, physical fitness and emotional health concerns among their employees. The ...

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 ...