Implementing Movement at the Workplace: Approaches to Increase Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior in the Context of Work

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• Personal Author:
  Pronk NP
• Description:
  The purpose of this article is to highlight approaches to increase movement, physical activity (PA), and cardiorespiratory fitness, and reduce sedentary behavior (SB) in the context of the workplace. A deliberate strategy that will enable the successful promotion of movement at the workplace includes a business plan and rationale, an organizing framework, prioritization of interventions that are known to generate outcomes, and alignment of programmatic solutions with strong program design principles. Recommended principles of design include leadership, relevance, partnership, comprehensiveness, implementation, engagement, communications, being data-driven, and compliance. Specific evidence-based intervention examples are presented in the context of a socio-ecological framework including the individual, group, communications environment, physical environment, and policy domains. Increased movement at the workplace, as a result of promoting PA and reducing SB, generates important health outcomes across physical, mental, social, and economic domains and these benefits extend across the individual and organizational levels. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Promotion Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Activity Levels Author Keywords: Workplace Cardiopulmonary System Health Programs Implementation Intervention Physical Activity Physical Exercise Program Design Sedentary Behavior Total Worker Health TWH Work Organization

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• ISSN:
  0033-0620
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; Minnesota ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  17-21
• Issue:
  64
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20061472
• Citation:
  Prog Cardiovasc Dis 2021 Jan-Feb; 64:17-21
• Contact Point Address:
  Nicolaas P. Pronk, HealthPartners Institute, 3311 E Old Shakopee Road, Bloomington, MN 55425, United States of America
• Email:
  nico.p.pronk@healthpartners.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction ; Healthcare and Social Assistance
• Performing Organization:
  Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20070901
• Source Full Name:
  Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f03dcbf67cb9dd5c8c1240455875ebb1d60127cc34af527bba49bcd40863b170b898b5536be23362b58e52bec7b45a7d9ecbf78b953b8884c106a2f7a898af19
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/225001/cdc_225001_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 301.13 KB ]