Economic Impact of Worksite Health Promotion [Hardcover]

Association for Worksite Healt (Author), Joseph P. Opatz (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1993 | ISBN-10: 0873224361 | ISBN-13: 978-0873224369

This book gives corporate and academic health-promotion professionals, human resource managers and business administrators a complete source to help them evaluate and modify their own health- promotion programs. The book has been developed through the expertise of the Association of Worksite Health Promotion (formerly the Association for Fitness in Business), one of the premier organizations for corporate health-promotion and health care cost management. There are three main parts: part 1 addresses some of the important theoretical considerations affecting worksite health-promotion, including the role of increasing health care costs in the development of worksite health programs, the process of creating health programs for a positive economic impact, problems in identiying and measuring costs and benefits, and the benefits resulting from health-promotion programs. In the second section, the authors define worksite health promotion and review and evaluate the effectiveness of current worksite health- promotion studies. They also lead the reader through nine steps in planning a program evaluation, including strategies for successful implementation of evaluation findings. The final part features specific case studies and an evaluation of the effectiveness of their program components. Worksite programs in such diverse settings as large corporations, small businesses and the public sector are examined to provide the reader with insight into the economic costs and benefits of employee health-promotion programs.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 258 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers (September 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873224361
• ISBN-13: 978-0873224369
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,047,091 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Economic Impact of Worksite Promotion has the data needed to make a case for Health and Wellness programs in the work place. This book has the data necessary to convince even the most resistant number cruncher that their company can not afford to NOT have a worksite wellness programs. In an economy that has every CFO micromanaging every dollar spent, worksite wellness may well be the best investment for a company's benefit dollar. This book gives the statistics to bring it home. My company is offering a new Worksite Health and Wellness program to businesses in our community. This book has helped me sell it.