Site Contents

Background basics and other good information | Heart Check Survey | Ideas for Worksite Wellness | Project Progress at the worksites | News, articles and other items of interest relating to worksite wellness | Other Web sites of interest

Introduction to this Web site

• Understanding "Worksite Environment"
• Understanding "Stages of Change"
• Cultural Foundations for change
• Contact information
• Submit Your Questions and Ideas

Introduction to the HHW Program

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Heart Check Survey

• What, How, and Who...
• An Overview of Results
• Summary of Questions

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Ideas for Worksite Wellness
Activities, Programs, and Policies

• Brainstorming ideas for activities, programs and policies
• Ideas, ideas, ideas
• Why have incentive programs?
  • Ten Reasons to run an incentive program
• Examples of organizations' mission statements.
• Policy statements for encouraging healthy food choices at the worksite (five examples)
• Move For Life!
• "Imagine Action": A program for increasing your level of physical activity.
• Incentives for program participants
  • Many ideas
  • Currently available from WWTC
• Supplies for implementing wellness programs
• Step-by-Step Guide to Launching a Physical Activity Program
• 5 A Day Challenge: Eating fruits and vegetables for better health
• Submit Your Own Ideas

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Wellness Project Progress: what worksites are doing

• A letter to help get employees involved
• A 14-question survey for employees
• Wellness objectives adopted by HHW worksites
• Get your physical activity program up and running
• Submit Your Experiences
• Participants' Evaluation for 2001

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News and other articles of interest

• Meet what you eat; A guide to the Nutrition Facts label
• Overweight and obesity may eclipse cigarette smoking as #1 preventable cause of disease and death
• Promoting Physical Activity: Recommendations from the CDC
• Eating out (more) often?
• Heart Disease Remains Leading Cause of U.S. Deaths
• Quitting smoking harder for women than for men
• Health Promotion heads to Capitol Hill
• Rx from nation's "Top Doc"
• Gardening as a Community Builder

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Other Web sites of interest

• Beyond fats and vitamins: The Society for Nutrition Education