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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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Additional Authors
  • Gruman, Jessie C.
  • Allegrante, John P. (John Philip), 1952-
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