Healthy Workplaces

Overview

Healthy Workplaces

As employers, local agencies can play an important role in reducing the high rates of preventable chronic diseases.  Efforts to improve employee wellness are beneficial to both employee and employer, reducing health care costs through programs and policies that:

  • Prevent obesity and overweight
  • Support healthy nutrition
  • Provide tobacco cessation resources
  • Encourage physical activity
  • Provide design characteristics and green building materials that promote good health
  • Include accommodations for active commuting and exercise

Key words: obesity prevention, tobacco cessation, workplace wellness programs, lactation accommodations

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