Year: 2014
Type: review
Abstract: Most American workplaces are smaller, with fewer than 1,000 employees. Many of these employees are low-wage earners and at increased risk for chronic diseases. Owing to the challenges smaller workplaces face to offering health-promotion programs, their employees often lack access to health-promotion opportunities available at larger workplaces. Many smaller employers do not offer health insurance, which is currently the major funding vehicle for health-promotion services. They also have few health-promotion vendors to serve them and low internal capacity for, and commitment to, delivery of on-site programs. The programs they offer, whether aimed at health promotion alone or integrated with health protection, are rarely comprehensive and are understudied. Research priorities for health promotion in smaller workplaces include developing programs feasible for the smallest workplaces with fewer than 20 employees. Policy priorities include incentives for smaller workplaces to implement comprehensive programs and an ongoing system for monitoring and evaluation.
Source: Annual Review of Public Health
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funders: National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Cancer Institute, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Awards: HEALTH PROMOTION RESEARCH CENTER, HSPH CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE TO PROMOTE A HEALTHIER WORKFORCE, G2486752451, G3492787049, Enhancing Long-Term 5-a-Day Behavior Change in Worksites, Doctoral Training/Alcohol-Related Health Services Research, G73521160, Reducing Obesity at the Workplace: A Randomized Trial
OpenAlex ID: W2147764665