The CDC has a new National
Healthy Worksite Program (NHWP) designed to help employers implement health and
wellness strategies to reduce chronic disease rates, such as heart disease,
stroke, cancer, obesity, arthritis and diabetes. NHWP will help an estimated
70 to 100 small, mid-size and large employers create and expand
workplace programs aimed at achieving the following goals:
- Reduce
the risk of chronic disease among employees and their families through
evidence-based workplace health interventions and promising practices.
- Promote
sustainable and replicable workplace health activities.
- Promote
peer-to-peer healthy business mentoring
The program will provide employers and interested
organizations nationwide access to worksite health training and resources
beginning in summer 2012. For more information, click here.
