Contacts and references

Websites

New Zealand

• Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) NZ
• New Zealand Heart Foundation
• Human Kinetics Publishers

Canada

• Alberta Centre for Active Living
• Canadian Centre for Active Living in the Workplace

United States of America

• American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
• Association for Worksite Health Promotion
• Business Case for Active Living at Work
• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity
• The Cooper Institute
• Michigan Health Management Research Centre
• Wellness Councils of America

Australia

• State of Victoria Workplace Health Programme
• Australian Research Co-ordination Unit at National Occupation Health & Safety Commission

United Kingdom

• The Healthy Workplace Initiative
• SAMHSA (Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration)

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Journals and periodicals

• American Workplace Health Promotion's (AWHP) Worksite Health
• American Journal of Health Promotion
• American Journal of Public Health
• Health Promotion International
• Health Promotion Journal of Australia
• Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine (JOEM)
• Journal of Occupational Medicine
• NZ Medical Journal
• Occupational Health & Safety (Canada)
• Worksite Wellness Works (Magazine of Wellness Councils of America)

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Journal collections

American Journal of Health Promotion journal collection 5: Worksite Health Promotion

This collection includes the following six articles:

1. Pelletier, K.  A review and analysis of the clinical and cost effectiveness studies of comprehensive health promotion and disease management programs at the worksite: 1998-2000.
2. Poole, K., Kumpfer, K. Pett, M. The impact of an incentive-based worksite health promotion program on modifiable health risk factors.
3. Eriksen, M., Gottlieb, N. A review of the health impact of smoking control at the workplace.
4. Oldenburg, B, Sallis, J., Harris, D., Owen, N. Checklist of health promotion environments at worksites (CHEW): development and measurement characteristics.
5. Grosch, J., Alterman, T., Peterson, M., Murphy, L. Worksite health promotion programs in the US: factors associated with availability and participation.
6. Heaney, C., Goetzel, C. A review of health-related outcomes of multi-component worksite health promotion programs.

American Journal of Health Promotion journal collection 8: Health Promotion, Medical Cost Containment and Productivity Enhancement

This collection includes the following six articles:

1. Riedel, J., Baase, P., Lynch, W. et al. The effect of disease prevention and health promotion on workplace productivity: a literature review.
2. Leutzinger, J., Ozminkowski, R., Dunn, R., Goetzel, R. et al. Projecting future medical care costs using four scenarios of lifestyle risk rates.
3. Anderson, D., Whitmer, W., Goetzel, R., et al. The relationship between modifiable health risks and group-level health care expenditures.
4. Pelletier, Kenneth. A review and analysis of the clinical and cost effectiveness studies of comprehensive health promotion and disease management programs at the worksite: 1998-2000.
5. Tucker, L. Clegg, A. Differences in healthcare costs and utilisation among adults with selected lifestyle-related risk factors.
6. Goetzel, R., Ozminkowski, R. Health and productivity management: emerging opportunities for health professionals for the 21st century.

American Journal of Health Promotion May/June 2001; 15(5)

Kaman, R. W. Worksite Health Promotion Economics: consensus and analysis 1995.

Corporate author is the Association for Worksite Health Promotion. Published Human Kinetics, 1995.

Papers presented at the second conference on the Economic Impact of Worksite Health Promotion Programs held April 29-May 2, 1993 in Buffalo, N.Y. Includes bibliographical references and index. Papers include:

• Kaman, R.W. The consensus statement.
• Whitmer, R.W. Health care cost.

Opatz, J.P. (ed) - Economic Impact of Worksite Health Promotion Human Kinetics. Publishers, Illinois, 1994

Includes the following essays:

• Fielding, J. E. The Live for Life program of Johnson & Johnson: direct and indirect economic benefits.
• Chenoweth, D. Positioning health promotion to make an economic impact.
• Lynch, W. D. Using cost as a health promotion outcome: problems with measuring health in dollars.
• Opatz, Chenoweth & Kaman. Economic impact of worksite health promotion.

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Taskforce reports and conferences

Centers for Disease Control. Increasing Physical Activity: A report on the recommendations of the task force on community preventative services MMWR 2002; 50: 1-16

Although this report is not specifically focused on worksite health promotion, it nevertheless makes for informative reading. The task force has conducted systematic reviews of community interventions to increase physical activity, many of which overlap into the workplace.

In their findings the task force either strongly recommends or recommends six interventions:

• Two information approaches (ie, community-wide campaigns and point-of-decision prompts to use stairs).
• Three behavioural and social approaches (ie, school-based physical education, social support interventions in community settings such as setting up a buddy system or contracting with another person to complete specified levels of physical activity, and individually adapted health behaviour change programmes.
• One intervention to increase physical activity by using environmental and policy approaches ie, creation of or enhanced access to places for physical activity combined with informational outreach activities.

This report provides additional information regarding the recommendations, briefly describes how the reviews were conducted, and provides information that can help in applying the interventions locally.

• Goetzel, R. Z. The Role of Business in Improving the Health of Workers and the Community. Report prepared under contract for the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the national Academy of Sciences (NAS), October, 2001.
• Conference on the Economic Impact of Worksite Health Promotions Programmes held by the Association for Worksite Health Promotion. See Kaman, R. W. Worksite Health Promotion Economics: consensus and analysis 1995.
• Papers presented at the second conference on the Economic Impact of Worksite Health Promotion Programs held April 29-May 2, 1993 in Buffalo, N.Y. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Association for Worksite Health Promotion: Annual International Conference (22nd: 1996: Phoenix, Arizona)

• The final day of the conference programme was devoted to papers that demonstrated how to integrate health promotion into business strategies. Papers are available from the Association (see Contacts and references).

Updated | 02 Nov 2006.

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