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Worksite wellness programs: the right or the wrong track?

Wednesday, November 4, 2015: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Oral
Session Objectives: Discuss the benefits and barriers of wellness programs to protect workers' health. Identify two unintended consequences of worksite wellness programs that may impede worker health and safety.
Moderator:
Jeanette M. Zoeckler, MPH

12:30pm
NIOSH's Total Worker Health Agenda: An agenda outside of NIOSH's statutory authority   
Rebecca Reindel, MS, MPH
12:46pm
Chronic disease: NIOSH's focus must be on occupational exposures that cause and contribute to chronic disease and ill health   
James Frederick, MS
1:02pm
Worksite Wellness in State Health Agencies: Policies and Practices to Improve Health Statewide   
Kristen Wan, MS, PAPHS and Elizabeth Walker Romero, MS
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
  
1:18pm
Implementing the Healthy Workplace Participatory Program in a retail work setting   
Jaime Strickland, M.A., Anna Kinghorn, MS, Jessica Schenk, MSW, Brad Evanoff, MD, MPH and Ann Marie Dale, PhD
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
1:34pm
Workplace wellness programs - a wrong path to promoting workers' health and well-being   
Nancy Lessin, MS
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)

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Organized by: Occupational Health and Safety
Endorsed by: Law, Vietnam Caucus, Chiropractic Health Care

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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