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Workplace Health Promotion Programs: Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation

ISBN: 978-1-118-66932-7

September 2015

Jossey-Bass

512 pages

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Description

THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND EVALUATION OF WORKPLACE HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAMS

Workplace Health Promotion Programs outlines the attributes of successful workplace health promotion programs, services, and collaborations. This essential text introduces methods and tools for promoting employee health and safety, while emphasizing the skills students and professionals need to do so. With this resource, students and professionals will learn how to recognize employee health and safety opportunities, and how to think on a larger scale—ensuring that workplace health initiatives in organizations of all sizes are comprehensive and fiscally sound.

Workplace Health Promotion Programs includes:

  • Approaches to design, implementation, and evaluation of workplace health promotion programs that address the range of employee health needs and concerns
  • Information on how evidence-based programs can positively impact businesses and reduce health care costs
  • Large-scale implications of successful workplace health programs, including health policies, health insurance design, worker safety, and employee behavior
  • Ideas for how employers and employees can work together to create a culture of health and well-being to support and promote employee health and safety
  • The impact of the Affordable Care Act on workplace health promotion program success

Workplace Health Promotion Programs guides students and professionals in the discovery, development, and execution of successful employee health initiatives.

About the Author

CARL I. FERTMAN, PHD, MBA, MCHES, is associate professor in health and physical activity at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Fertman works extensively in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of workplace health promotion programs that include large, midsized, and small businesses, hospitals, schools, community organizations, government offices, and sole proprietorships. He is the co-editor of the SOPHE textbook published by Wiley/Jossey-Bass, Health Promotion Programs: From Theory to Practice.