Worksite Physical Activity Success Story: Utah : Employee-Initiated Success

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity.
• Description:
  WORKSITE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN UTAH: OVERVIEW
  
  Utah has traditionally been one of the healthiest states in the country.1 In fact, the latest health rankings place Utah fifth in the country for overall health, measured by indicators such as smoking prevalence, drug use, and physical activity.
  
  One strategy that is helping to foster a culture of health and wellness is Governor Gary Herbert’s statewide Work Well Challenge. The Challenge, issued to all state employers, includes a handbook, developed and sponsored by the Public Employee’s Health Program. In addition to encouraging employees to exercise during work hours (the Utah Department of Health has an exercise release time policy that allows employees to use up to 30 minutes, three times per week of their work hours for exercise, at the discretion of their supervisor), the Challenge promotes the formation of employee wellness councils and provides a roadmap, in the form of “challenges,” for creating an engaged and active workplace. Wellness councils use the roadmap of challenges to vie for points. The highest scoring councils receive a substantial cash reward that can be used to further their mission.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Healthy Diet Public Health
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  Utah
• Pages in Document:
  6
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:95c05098e750b1d187a11ca36f28bae7b7bb1c9b1330c0339adab1b9d38666c4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/79320/cdc_79320_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 255.29 KB ]