141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Improving Health from 9-to-5: Effective Worksite Wellness Strategies

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Oral
The purpose of this session is to describe strategies to improve worksite wellness practices. Evidence to support the cost-effectiveness of worksite wellness will be shared.
Session Objectives: Define the challenges for small employers to effectively implement an evidenced-based worksite wellness program. Identify relationships between health conditions, modifiable behaviors and changes in workers’ compensation claims and costs.
Moderator:
Mario Browne, MPH, CHES

12:30pm
A community based approach to small employer worksite wellness programs   
Philip DiRusso, MS and Robin Hetzler, MPH
     
     
12:45pm
Evaluating the impact of a health risk management program on employees' health risks, and workers' compensation   
Kaylan Stinson, MSPH, Hai Fang, PhD, Dianne Metcalf, MD, PhD, Kimberly Jinnett, PhD, Claire Brockbank, MS, Liliana Tenney, MPH, Margo Trotter, RN, MHSc, Stephen Reynolds, PhD, Roxana Witter, MD, MSPH, Ron Goetzel, PhD and Lee S. Newman, MD, MA
1:00pm
“healthy monday” - raising health in the workplace   
Morgan Johnson, MPH and Rachelle Reeder, MPH
     
1:15pm
Training health coaches to deliver a worksite translation of the diabetes prevention program   
Heather M. Padilla, MS, RDN, LD, Heather Zuercher, MPH, Mark Wilson, HSD and David M. DeJoy, PhD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by: Health Administration, Chiropractic Health Care

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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