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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 Home
• Diabetes
• 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.
• HOPE Health Resources : A specialty publisher focused on producing health, wellness and benefits media that are easy-to- read, interesting, and actionable.
• 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

• How to Conduct 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 - Eat a Colorful Variety of Fruits and Vegetables Every Day for Better Health: 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.
• New York State Smokers' Quitline provides tips on how to stay smoke-free, how to help a friend or family member and stop smoking medications and support.
• 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: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Employer Initiatives
• 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.