Worksite Cancer Prevention Activities in the National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program

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• Alternative Title:
  J Community Health
• Personal Author:
  Nahmias, Zachary ; Townsend, Julie S. ; Neri, Antonio ; Stewart, Sherri L.
• Description:
  Background
  
  Workplaces are one setting for cancer control planners to reach adults at risk for cancer and other chronic diseases. However, the extent to which Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded National Comprehensive Cancer Control Programs (NCCCP) implement interventions in the workplace setting is not well characterized.
  
  Methods
  
  We conducted a qualitative content analysis of program action plans submitted by NCCCP grantees from 2013–2015 to identify and describe cancer prevention objectives and interventions in the workplace setting.
  
  Results
  
  Nearly half of NCCCP action reports contained at least one cancer prevention objective or intervention in the workplace setting. Common interventions included education about secondhand smoke exposure in the workplace, and the importance of obtaining colorectal cancer screening.
  
  Conclusion
  
  Workplace interventions were relatively common among NCCCP action plans, and serve as one way to address low percentages of CRC screening, and reduce risk for obesity- and tobacco-related cancers.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adult Aged Female Health Promotion Humans Male Middle Aged Neoplasms Primary Prevention Workplace
• Source:
  J Community Health. 41(4):838-844.
• Pubmed ID:
  26874944
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4930403
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  41
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:5cc4affb12a943e0e726458fc9ffa8dad73641ced19050aaf56b29141b14aad1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/40326/cdc_40326_DS1.pdf
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