Health promotion in smaller workplaces in the United States

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• Personal Author:
  Beresford SA ; Hannon PA ; Harris JR ; Linnan LA ; McLellan DL
• Description:
  Most American workplaces are smaller, with fewer than 1,000 employees. Many of these employees are low-wage earners and at increased risk for chronic diseases. Owing to the challenges smaller workplaces face to offering health-promotion programs, their employees often lack access to health-promotion opportunities available at larger workplaces. Many smaller employers do not offer health insurance, which is currently the major funding vehicle for health-promotion services. They also have few health-promotion vendors to serve them and low internal capacity for, and commitment to, delivery of on-site programs. The programs they offer, whether aimed at health promotion alone or integrated with health protection, are rarely comprehensive and are understudied. Research priorities for health promotion in smaller workplaces include developing programs feasible for the smallest workplaces with fewer than 20 employees. Policy priorities include incentives for smaller workplaces to implement comprehensive programs and an ongoing system for monitoring and evaluation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Demography Health Promotion Occupational Health Safety Small Business Tobacco Products
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Chronic Disease Demographic-characteristics Exercise Health-programs Obesity Prevention And Control Small-businesses Tobacco Total-Worker-Health Worker-health Workers Workplace

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• ISSN:
  0163-7525
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement ; Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; New York ; North Carolina ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 4 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  327-342
• Volume:
  35
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20044823
• Citation:
  Annu Rev Public Health 2014 Mar; 35:327-342
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• Performing Organization:
  Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20070901
• Source Full Name:
  Annual Review of Public Health
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:abd778484351ec4b2e756858d0391067adfdc07fdedce84aca1a6de6d1a152ea28ed5ca593ee9a68a84de353c819925357a2b91740c6c6add91340ed73be6f9b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/200444/cdc_200444_DS1.pdf
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