Employer Engagement Strategies to Promote and Add Evidence-Based Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Programs as a Covered Benefit

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• Personal Author:
  Brown CE ; Levine SD ; Shapiro D ; Tenney L
• Description:
  Chronic disease is a serious workforce issue with significant economic impacts on employers and employees. While there are several evidence-based chronic disease prevention and management programs (CDPMPs), they are underutilized in the workplace due to a lack of awareness and understanding by employers. There are few studies to inform how best to engage employers to help support at-risk employees and provide coverage of evidence-based programs. This paper aims to present the gaps and opportunities in how these programs are implemented and promoted by employers to increase the awareness and adoption of evidence-based CDPMPs, specifically the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP) as a covered benefit among employers. We provide detailed information on three organizational engagement strategies used for 349 organizations and provide data on levels of employer and employee engagement for the three organizations that completed uptake. Our paper reflects on the findings of the tested engagement strategies to provide guidance for employer engagement in CDPMPs. These cases show the importance of employer engagement to support and maintain chronic disease prevention and management efforts and key strategies for organizational implementation of evidence-based programs. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Chronic Disease Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Chronic Disease Prevention And Management Chronic Diseases Diabetes Diabetes Prevention Disease Prevention Intervention Effectiveness Occupational Health Total Worker Health Total Worker Health® TWH Work Organization Workplace Health

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• ISSN:
  2367-0134
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  365-382
• Volume:
  8
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20069920
• Citation:
  Occup Health Sci 2024 Jun; 8(2):365-382
• Contact Point Address:
  Sarah D. Levine, Center for Health, Work & Environment, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, 80045
• Email:
  sarah.levine@cuanschutz.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2024
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing ; Services
• Performing Organization:
  University of Colorado, Denver
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20210901
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational Health Science
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1c9047acdaddc13569e5240bc8d15bedb5104c9ab9a4daa6e0bfc0ea78e18267ad96634a369afa3b927a788b51351ded407ec5f0e486b2ceba3bbb12f131a21b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/208243/cdc_208243_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.66 MB ]