Encouraging and maintaining a healthy workforce have become key components in the challege to reduce health care expenditures and health-related productivity losses. As companies more fully realize the impact of healthy workers on the financial health of their organization, health promotion professionals seek support to design and implement interventions that generate improvements in workers’ health and business performance.
The second edition of ACSM’s Worksite Health Handbook: A Guide to Building Healthy and Productive Companies connects worksite health research and practice to offer health promotion professionals the information, ideas, and approaches to provide affordable, scalable, and sustainable solutions for the organizations they serve.
Part I: Setting the Context
Chapter 1: Population Health Management at the Worksite
Chapter 2: Employee Health Promotion: A Historical Perspective
Chapter 3: Workplace-Based Health and Wellness Services
Chapter 4: State of the Worksite Health Promotion Industry: The 2004 National Worksite Health Promotion Survey
Chapter 5: Health Promotion Programming in Small, Medium, and Large Businesses
Chapter 6: Employee Health Promotion: A Legal Perspective
Chapter 7: Health Care Policy and Health Promotion
Chapter 8: The Case for Change: From Segregated to Integrated Employee Health Management
Part II: The Evidence for Employer-Sponsored Health Programs
Chapter 9: An Introduction to Evidence on Worksite Health Promotion
Chapter 10: The Assessment of Health Risks With Feedback: Results of a Systematic Review
Chapter 11: Practice and Research Connected: A Synergistic Process of Translation Through Knowledge Transfer
Chapter 12: Benchmarking and Best Practices in Worksite Health Promotion
Chapter 13: Health and the Organization of Work
Chapter 14: Health and Productivity Management: An Overview
Part III: Assessing Worker and Organizational Health
Chapter 15: Practical Program Evaluation: Ensuring Findings Are Used for Program Improvement
Chapter 16: The Assessment of Health and Risk: Tools, Specific Uses, and Implementation Processes
Chapter 17: Organizational Assessment for Health
Chapter 18: Assessment Tools for Employee Productivity
Chapter 19: Calculating the Economic Return of Health and Productivity Management Programs
Chapter 20: Using Claims Analysis to Support Intervention Planning, Design, and Measurement
Part IV: Program Design and Implementation
Chapter 21: Organizing Intelligence to Achieve Increased Consumer Engagement, Behavior Change, and Health Improvement
Chapter 22: The Application of Behavior Change Theory in the Worksite Setting
Chapter 23: Keeping Healthy Workers Healthy: Creating a Culture of Health
Chapter 24: Connecting the Program to Core Business Objectives
Chapter 25: Addressing Diversity and Health Literacy at the Worksite
Chapter 26: A Culture of Health: Creating and Sustaining Supportive Organizational Environments for Health
Chapter 27: Online Communities and Worksite Health Management
Chapter 28: Rewarding Change: Principles for Implementing Worksite Incentive Programs
Chapter 29: eHealth for Employee Health and Wellness: Optimizing Plan Design and Incentive Management
Chapter 30: Effective Programs to Promote Worker Health Within Healthy and Safe Worksites
Chapter 31: Programs Designed to Improve Employee Health Through Changes in the Built Environment
Chapter 32: The Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Medical Self-Care Programs
Chapter 33: Disease Management for Employed Populations
Chapter 34: From the Basics to Comprehensive Programming
Part V: Case Studies
Chapter 35: The Occupational Athlete: Injury Reduction and Productivity Enhancement in Reforestation Workers
Chapter 36: Employee Health at BAE Systems: An Employer–Health Plan Partnership Approach
Chapter 37: Health Promotion, Participation, and Productivity: A Case Study at Unilever PLC
Chapter 38: Introducing Environmental Interventions at the Dow Chemical Company to Reduce Overweight and Obesity Among Workers
Nicolaas P. Pronk, PhD, is the vice president of health management at HealthPartners in Bloomington, Minnesota, the largest consumer-governed, nonprofit health care organization in the nation. He is also senior research investigator at HealthPartners Research Foundation and health science officer of JourneyWell, a Minneapolis-based nationwide provider of health and wellness programs.
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The American College of Sports Medicine, founded in 1954, is a professional membership society with more than 20,000 national, regional, and international members in more than 70 countries dedicated to improving health through science, education, and medicine. ACSM members work in a wide range of medical specialties, allied health professions, and scientific disciplines. Our members are committed to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of sport-related injuries and the advancement of the science of exercise.