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The National Healthy Worksite Program is designed to assist employers in implementing science and practice-based prevention and wellness strategies that will lead to specific, measureable health outcomes to reduce chronic disease rates. For most employers, chronic diseases—such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, obesity, arthritis and diabetes—are among the most prevalent, costly, and preventable of all health problems. The National Healthy Worksite Program seeks to promote good health through prevention, reduce chronic illness and disability, and improve productivity outcomes that contribute to employers’ competitiveness.

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The CDC National Healthy Worksite Program will provide employers and interested organizations nationwide access to worksite health training and resources beginning in summer 2012. To receive ongoing program communications and announcements for specific training and technical assistance dates and times, click on the link to provide your contact information.

A webinar was held on April 20th, 2012 to describe the National Healthy Worksite training program that focuses on practical, skill-building training for employers to implement comprehensive worksite health programs. To view the Overview of Training and Technical Assistance Opportunities PowerPoint presented in the webinar, please click here [PDF - 739KB].

This webinar entitled "Making the Case for Worksite Health, Leadership and Culture" features speaker William B. Baun, EPD, CWP, FAWHP, Wellness Officer of the MD Anderson Cancer Center and President of the National Wellness Institute.

This first in the series of five trainings provided by the CDC will discuss the key components of a worksite health program; the relationship between individual employee health and organizational performance; and how to create leadership support and build a strong infrastructure and culture for worksite health. Attendees will also have the opportunity to hear the latest information about the recently implemented National Healthy Worksite Program. To register for the webinar, please click here.

Be one in a million hearts. Get Involved.

In 2011 The CDC and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched Million Hearts, an initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes over the next five years. The initiative focuses on two main goals: empowering Americans to make healthy choices, and improving care for people, focusing on the ABCS (Aspirin for people at risk, Blood pressure control, Cholesterol management and Smoking cessation.) The National Health Worksite Program supports Million Hearts efforts in the workplace.