ACSM's

Worksite Health Promotion Manual

A Guide to Building and Sustaining Healthy Worksites

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American College of Sports Medicine
2003
US Price: $39
264 pages
9780736046572

About the Editor | Contributors | About the ACSM | Table of Contents

ACSM's Worksite Health Promotion Manual is the most practical resource of its kind, giving students and professionals alike the most useful information available to start, run, and evaluate worksite programs.

Editor Carolyn Cox, PhD, CHES, expertly compiles dozens of proven and implemented ideas and examples from 30 of the top practitioners, researchers, and leaders in the field, making the manual a day-to-day resource for working health promotion practitioners. The hands-on text stresses the importance of making worksite health promotion relevant to today's top business leaders to ensure its long-term success.

Worksite health promotion traditionally has taken a back seat to business and medicine, in part because of consumer attitudes: People don't want to do what they should. For the minority who do, the benefits take time, sometimes years, to achieve. The ACSM's Worksite Health Promotion Manual predicts that the profession will only grow and flourish if practitioners successfully relate their work to business objectives and medical outcomes, to consumers and corporations, and to everyday performance as well as long-term health.

The five-part text features easy-to-read sections that allow readers to find specific information quickly. Other features include the following:

• Lists of resources that professionals can use to maximize program efficiency and cost effectiveness
• Examples of best practices from the profession
• Chapter-by-chapter icons that highlight important principles in each section
• A comprehensive appendix that contains 15 forms designed to guide businesses through various aspects of worksite health promotion
• Popular Web sites for health promotion

Part I, "Building a Strong Foundation," advocates that all interventions and planning be based on proven theory, encouraging practitioners to foster more partnerships to be successful.

Part II, "Operation Processes That Work," reviews the four cornerstones of an effective health promotion program and their interdependency: needs assessment and evaluation, health culture development, effective interventions, and relapse prevention.

Part III, "Development Strategies for Mature Programs," offers current resources to help practitioners revitalize and continue to develop existing programs.

Part IV, "Reengineering for Mature Programs," challenges programs to find and use a variety of tools and processes to break away from the status quo, ultimately improving the creative and innovative process.

Part V, "The Twenty-First Century Challenge," presents viewpoints of other movements that are influencing health promotion.

The ACSM's Worksite Health Promotion Manual is an ideal reference for professionals who are setting up, running, and evaluating on-the-job programs. It's the most practical, hands-on tool available for worksite health promotion practitioners, complete with real-world case studies and objectives to help with healthy worksite promotion.

About the Editor

Carolyn C. Cox, PhD, CHES, is an associate professor of health science at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. She is respected in the field of worksite health promotion and frequently serves as a reviewer for textbook publishers on the topic.

Extensively published and well practiced as a presenter of research on worksite health promotion, Cox is a fellow for the Association for Worksite Health Promotion, a member of the American College of Sports Medicine's Alliance of Health Fitness Professionals, and chair of the Missouri Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Health's Worksite Health Promotion Task Force.

Dr. Cox also is an active member of the National Wellness Institute and the American Alliance for Health Education of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. The Central District and Missouri Chapter of AAHPERD named her the College/University Health Education Professional of the Year for 2002. Dr. Cox enjoys fitness walking, strength training, and cycling in her free time.

Contributors

Lisa Bailey William B. Baun, EPD, FAWHP Gary Billotti, M.S. Susan Blair, FAWHP Scott Chovanec Carolyn C. Cox, Ph.D., CHES, FAWHP Tracey L. Cox, FAWHP Vicki Diffendal, FAWHP Ron Z. Goetzel, Ph.D. Thomas Golaszewski, Ph.D. John Harris

Jacqueline Hooper, DrPH, FAWHP David Hunnicutt, Ph.D, Debbie Jordan Joseph A. Leutzinger, Ph.D., FAWHP Susan T. Liebenow Wendy D. Lynch, Ph.D. Dan Newton Michael P. O'Donnell, PhD, MBA, MPH Ron Ozminkowski, Ph.D. George Pfeiffer, M.S.E., FAWHP Nico Pronk, Ph.D., FACSM, FAWHP

Chuck Reynolds Anastasia M. Snelling, Ph.D., RD, FAWHP Neal Sofian Maura O. Stevenson, Ph.D. Paul E. Terry, Ph.D Paul Terry, PhD Gordon R. Waine, FCIB, ACIS Ted Wegleitner Sharon Wilke, M.S. Dean Witherspoon

About the ACSM

The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) is the largest, most respected sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world. What started with a group of only 11 physicians, physiologists, and educators in 1954 has evolved into a diversified professional association that comprises more than 18,000 members in more than 50 different professions today. ACSM is dedicated to promoting and integrating scientific research, education, and practical applications of sports medicine and exercise science to maintain and enhance physical performance, fitness, health, and quality of life.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I: Building a Strong Foundation
  • Chapter 1. Building a Healthy Worksite From the View of a CEO
  • Chapter 2. Using Theories and Models to Support Program Planning
  • Chapter 3. Forming Alliances to Ensure Program Integration
• Part II: Operation Processes That Work
  • Chapter 4. Establishing the Operating Plan and Resources
  • Chapter 5. Designing Health Promotion Programming
  • Chapter 6. Using Administrative Processes That Keep It Working
• Part III: Development Strategies for Mature Programs
  • Chapter 7. Introducing Program Strategies for Mature Programs
  • Chapter 8. Building Partnerships Between Mature Worksite Health Promotion Programs and Managed Care
  • Chapter 9. Dow Chemical's Evaluation-Driven Approach
  • Chapter 10. Implementing Health and Productivity Management
  • Chapter 11. Improving the Organization Through the Work Promotion Model
  • Chapter 12. Presenting Final Thoughts for Mature Programs
• Part IV: Reengineering
  • Chapter 13. Introducing the Concept of Reengineering
  • Chapter 14. Linking Reengineering to Corporate Strategy
  • Chapter 15. Using Benchmarking Best Practices
  • Chapter 16. Institutionalizing Worksite Health Promotion: "Heart Check"
  • Chapter 17. Promoting Reengineering With the Organizational Development Model for Health Promotion Reengineering
• Part V: The 21st Century Challenge
  • Chapter 18. Introducing the Twenty-First Century Challenge
  • Chapter 19. Using New Communication Technologies As a Bridge to Better Health
  • Chapter 20. Using Integrative Medicine
  • Chapter 21. Expanding Workplace Health Promotion Globally
  • Chapter 22. Providing a Broader Vision for Worksite Health
• Appendix
• Index

Audiences

A comprehensive manual for worksite health promotion professionals and human resources staff who are establishing, running, and evaluating on-the-job programs; instructors of worksite health promotion and professional methods courses.