RESUMEN
Employee health promotion programs have been a visible facet of the American workplace for more than 30 years. During that time, a substantial amount of research on best practices has been conducted, but because of a lack of significant public investment in research funding there is still much to be done. Most researchers and practitioners familiar with the literature recognize the need to strengthen the evidence base for the field. In this edition of The Art of Health Promotion we examine the primary recommendations emerging from a recent federally sponsored effort to identify strategies for strengthening the evidence base for employee health promotion.
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Medicina Basada en la Evidencia/economía , Promoción de la Salud/métodos , Salud Laboral/economía , Desarrollo de Programa/métodos , Mercadeo Social , Medicina Basada en la Evidencia/estadística & datos numéricos , Humanos , Inversiones en Salud , Salud Laboral/estadística & datos numéricos , Desarrollo de Programa/estadística & datos numéricos , Estados Unidos , Lugar de TrabajoRESUMEN
OBJECTIVES: We examined worksite health promotion programs, policies, and services to monitor the achievement of the Healthy People 2010 worksite-related goal of 75% of worksites offering a comprehensive worksite health promotion program. METHODS: We conducted a nationally representative, cross-sectional telephone survey of worksite health promotion programs stratified by worksite size and industry type. Techniques appropriate for analyzing complex surveys were used to compute point estimates, confidence intervals, and multivariate statistics. RESULTS: Worksites with more than 750 employees consistently offered more programs, policies, and services than did smaller worksites. Only 6.9% of responding worksites offered a comprehensive worksite health promotion program. Sites with a staff person dedicated to and responsible for health promotion were significantly more likely to offer a comprehensive program, and sites in the agriculture and mining or financial services sector were significantly less likely than those in other industry sectors to offer such a program. CONCLUSIONS: Increasing the number, quality, and types of health promotion programs at worksites, especially smaller worksites, remains an important public health goal.