How to Promote Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention in the Workplace
A Guide for Employers, Program Coordinators, and Health Benefit Designers
What Is the Employers’ Guide?
How to Promote Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention in the Workplace (the “Employers’ Guide”) can help employers from organizations of all sizes and in all industries start a new workplace health promotion (WHP) program or improve an existing one.
Organizations can use the Employers’ Guide’s information and resources to plan, put into action, and evaluate a program that helps improve their employees’ heart and brain health.
By focusing on high blood pressure control and high cholesterol management, the Employers’ Guide provides employers with:
- A description of the four main steps of a coordinated approach to workplace health: assessment, program planning and management, implementation, and evaluation,
- A discussion of relevant federal and state workplace health policies, and
- Additional resources to help start or improve a WHP program.
Who Should Use the Employers’ Guide?
The Employers’ Guide is intended for all employers, especially those who hold roles in executive leadership, WHP, and employee benefits management, such as program coordinators and health benefit designers, who may have responsibilities in executive leadership, WHP, and employee benefits management, among other roles.
Why Are Workplace Health Promotion Programs Important?
Heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death and disability and the most expensive medical conditions for businesses in the United States.1,2 Together, heart disease and stroke have led to billions of dollars spent in both direct costs, including coverage for health care services and medicines; and indirect costs, including lost productivity associated with absenteeism and presenteeism, and short- and long-term disability.3 These conditions are preventable and can not only lead to a healthier and more productive workforce, but to reductions in healthcare expenditures as well.
The workplace has increasingly become a focus for heart disease and stroke prevention management because, on average, people in the United States spend more than a third of their waking hours engaged in their work.4
Employers can take an active role in promoting employee heart and brain health by implementing best practices for lowering employees’ risk for heart disease and stroke. WHP programs that focus on preventing heart disease and stroke can be integrated into an organization’s structure at all levels, through leadership prioritization, programmatic efforts, and health benefit design. They can also be used by all types of employers, ranging from small to large businesses and across all types of workers.
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- Looking for ways you can support your employees’ heart and brain health? Explore CDC’s Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention’s new guide to learn more about effective strategies and best practices you can implement to lower employees’ risk for heart disease and stroke. https://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/workplace_guide.htm
- If you’re an employer, there are strategies and tools you can use to support your employees’ heart and brain health. Explore the new Employers’ Guide from CDC’s Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention to learn more about how you can reduce employee risk of heart disease and stroke. https://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/workplace_guide.htm
- Heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death and disability and the most expensive medical conditions for businesses in the United States. Read the new Employers’ Guide from CDC’s Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention to find effective strategies and best practices you can implement to support employee health in your workplace. https://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/workplace_guide.htm
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