Research Catalog

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