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Investing in employee health : a guide to effective health promotion in the workplace
- Title
- Investing in employee health : a guide to effective health promotion in the workplace / Richard P. Sloan, Jessie C. Gruman, John P. Allegrante.
- Author
- Sloan, Richard P.
- Publication
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1987.
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- Description
- xxv, 307 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Abstract: This book discusses the need for employee health maintenance programs in the workplace and how such a program might be managed. Topics include: health promotion as preventive maintenance; deesigning the health promotion program; and putting health promotion into practice. The costs of health care under current conditions and the costs of health care when a health promotion program exists in the workplace are compared.
- Series Statement
- A Publication in the Jossey-Bass management series, the Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series, and the Jossey-Bass health series
- Uniform Title
- Jossey-Bass management series
- Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series
- Jossey-Bass health series
- Subject
- Employee health promotion
- Industrial hygiene
- Health promotion
- Health Promotion > methods
- Occupational Health Services > organization & administration
- Occupational Health
- Health Promotion
- Industrial hygiene
- Health promotion
- Employee health promotion
- Arbeitsplatz
- Gesundheitsförderung
- Gesundheitsvorsorge
- Unternehmen
- United States
- USA
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 287-296.
- Contents
- Part 1: Health promotion in the workplace -- Health promotion as preventive maintenance -- Origins of health promotion and applications in the workplace -- Health promotion in perspective: relationship to organizational goals -- Making the case to top management -- Part 2: Designing the health promotion program -- Analyzing the organization's health needs and resources -- Planning: developing the mission, business plan, and budget -- Evaluation: assessing program effectiveness from the outset -- Dealing with ethical issues and other problems -- Part 3: Putting health promotion into practice -- Tools of the health promotion manager -- Running the program: internal organization, marketing, and selection of vendors -- Helping individuals change their behavior -- Changing the organization's health-related policies -- Beyond the individual: health promotion through organizational change -- Conclusion: observations on the healthy workplace -- Resource A: Alternative strategies for managing health care costs -- Resource B: Publications for health promotion professionals -- Resource C: Organizations providing health promotion information -- Resource D: Sample employee health and attitude survey -- Resource E: Health risk appraisals.
- ISBN
- 1555420656
- 9781555420659
- LCCN
- 87045506
- ZBWT00144011
- OCLC
- ocm15791346
- 15791346
- SCSB-1712958
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library