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Mcdonald, Hayden; Delaney, Deborah; Gould, Ryan; Vecchio, Nerina – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2022
Guidelines for implementing health promotion programmes within university settings outline key action areas for addressing health concerns. Further guidance is needed to help manage specific health promotion activities according to the needs and resources available to universities. Decisions about allocating resources to improve employee health…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Health Programs, Universities, Resource Allocation
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Shulman Cordeira, L.; Pednekar, M. S.; Nagler, E. M.; Gautam, J.; Wallace, L.; Stoddard, A. M.; Gupta, P. C.; Sorensen, G. C. – Health Education Research, 2015
This article provides an overview of the recruitment strategies utilized in the Mumbai Worksites Tobacco Control Study, a cluster randomized trial testing the effectiveness of an integrated tobacco control and occupational safety and health program in Indian manufacturing worksites. From June 2012 to June 2013, 20 companies were recruited.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Occupational Safety and Health, Work Environment, Health Promotion
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Ablah, Elizabeth; Dong, Frank; Konda, Kurt; Konda, Kelly; Armbruster, Sonja; Tuttle, Becky – Health Education & Behavior, 2015
Intervention: In an effort to increase physical activity, 15 workplaces participated in a minimal-contact 10,000-steps-a-day program sponsored by the Sedgwick County Health Department in 2007 and 2008. Pedometers were provided to measure participants' weekly steps for the 10-week intervention. Method: Participants were defined as those who…
Descriptors: Intervention, Wellness, Success, Physical Activities
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Kahn-Marshall, Jennifer L.; Gallant, Mary P. – Health Education & Behavior, 2012
As employers look for ways to reduce rising health care costs, worksite health promotion interventions are increasingly being used to improve employee health behaviors. An alternative approach to traditional worksite health promotion programs is the implementation of environmental and/or policy changes to encourage employees to adopt healthier…
Descriptors: Employees, Health Behavior, Behavior Change, Health Promotion
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LePrevost, Catherine E.; Storm, Julia F.; Asuaje, Cesar R.; Cope, W. Gregory – Journal of Extension, 2014
Migrant and seasonal farmworkers are typically Spanish-speaking, Latino immigrants with limited formal education and low literacy skills and, as such, are a vulnerable population. We describe the development of the "Pesticides and Farmworker Health Toolkit", a pesticide safety and health curriculum designed to communicate to farmworkers…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Hispanic Americans, Poisoning, Agricultural Laborers
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Graber, Kim C.; Woods, Amelia Mays; O'Connor, Jamie A. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2012
In 2004, Congress passed the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act that requires schools to implement a wellness plan. Grounded in Ecological Systems Theory (EST) (Bronfenbrenner, 1977, 1979), the purpose of this study was to explore the impact of the legislation, discover what measures have been taken to enact the legislation, gauge how the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Comprehensive School Health Education, Program Improvement, Health Programs