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What is the Employer Wellness Resource Center?
This
resource center is designed to support North Carolina employers' efforts to
create a healthier work place and promote healthier employees. Specific links
to organizations that have created services and/or tools to promote wellness in
the workplace as well as tips for starting an employer based wellness programs
can be found. An Interactive Preventive Tool designed by the Preventative
Services Task Force (AHRQ) will help define feedback on employee's overall
health. After inputting age, sex and pregnancy status specific feedback with
customized recommendations including an action plan designed to promote health
and wellness. In addition, a general on line health risk assessment is provided
along with an alcohol, BMI, asthma, CV including stroke, diabetes, 12 types of
cancer, osteoporosis, depression and dementia risk and/or severity assessment
is included. These risk assessment tools can be used by employees to determine
their likelihood of disease risk, development and/or overall disease
progression. In addition, a special focus is given to five key areas of
employees' health and/or wellness: drugs and alcohol use, nutrition and weight
management, physical activity, smoking cessation and stress management
resources.
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Promoting Wellness in the Workplace
- NC Prevention Partners
Miscellaneous other resources
to support weight management, exercise and tobacco cessation.
- NC Good Health Directory (NCPP)
A comprehensive
referral directory for NC highlighting services, vendors or resources that
supports physical activity, eating healthy and quitting tobacco. Sorted by
county, city and zip code.
- The Prevention 1st Challenge (NCPP)
General links for
employers to discover resources to support physical activity, nutrition,
quitting tobacco use, preventative healthy, health insurance and consulting
services.
- TNC Preventative Benefits Watch (NCPP)
Includes all the
preventive benefits offered by Aetna, First Carolina Care, NC State Health
plan, BCBSNC, NC Medicaid, UHC, Cigna, Medicare and Coventry Wellpath
- Prevention Works (NCPP)
NCPP worksite wellness
newsletter focused on tips for promoting a healthier workforce and workplace
- Prevention Information.org
Resource for disease and
injury prevention including tools to shape policies and improve health
including the cost of prevention, implementation tools, obesity, activity and
nutrition, Medicare, policy recommendations, priorities among clinical services
and worksite health.
- Prevention
Information.org
Specific tools for immunizations, motor vehicle
injuries, diabetes, physical activities, tobacco and cancer resources
- Partnership for Prevention
Worksite health links into
Leading By Example, Healthy Workforce 2010 an Essential Health Promotion Source
book for Employers, Large and Small as well as Preventive Services: Helping
Employers Expand Coverage
- Employers and Employees General Health Information, Live Health
Events, Drugs A-Z
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Starting a Wellness Program
- Employers 7 Steps to Creating a Wellness Program
Choosing appropriate interventions and evaluating the outcomes
- Prevention 1st Challenge
Offers a unique set of tools
for North Carolina counties, businesses, and individuals to improve health.
Includes information about prevention audits at the workplace, tobacco-free
workplaces, and how individuals, business and counties can get started and put
prevention first. The Prevention 1st Challenge is offered by North Carolina
Prevention Partners.
- Worksite Wellness Toolkit (NC Health & Wellness Trust,
BCBSNC)
A site for North Carolina employers that includes information
and tools for employers to develop or enhance worksite wellness programs
including success stories. This toolkit is offered through Fit Together, a
program that links North Carolinians to tools for healthier weight and
lifestyles.
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On-Line Employee Risk Assessment Tools
- On Line
General Health Risk Assessment Calculation Tool
10 minute on line
survey that will outline important risks, provide some recommended actions
steps for reducing risks and provide educational links to support materials.
Focus on stroke, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and depression.
- AHRQ's USPSTF (Preventive Services Task Force) Interactive
Preventive Tool
User inputs age, sex and pregnancy status and
recommendations for screenings, counseling, preventive medications will be
provided. Recommendations are graded as A strongly recommended, B recommended,
D not recommended, C some benefits or I insufficient evidence.
- On
Line Alcohol Questionnaire and Assessment of Problem Drinking
- On Line BMI Tool with Tips to Assess, Limit and Control Your
Weight
- On Line Take the Asthma Control Test
- On Line
Cardiovascular Disease 10 Year Risk Assessment Calculation Tool
- On Line Heart Disease Risk Assessment Survey Calculation Tool
from Harvard Public Health
- On Line Diabetes Risk Assessment Survey Calculation Tool
- On Line Diabetes Risk Assessment Survey Calculation Tool from
Harvard Public Health
- On Line Stroke Risk Assessment Calculation Tool from Harvard
Public Health
- On Line Cancer Risk Assessment Calculation Tool from Harvard
School of Public Health
This tool calculates cancer disease risk for
ovarian, bladder, breast, cervical, colon, kidney, lung, melanoma, pancreatic,
prostate, stomach and uterine cancer
- On Line Risk Osteoporosis Assessment Tool
- On Line Risk Tool For Dementia with a Memory Quiz
- Score Your Risk for Depression
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Focus Areas for Improving Employees Health
*Please also refer to the NCAHC's
Wellness Promotion and Disease Awareness Center on
this website for more information on specific
disease states of concern
outside of these five areas.
Drugs and
Alcoholism
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Nutrition and Weight Management
*Please also refer to the NCAHC's Weight Management
Registry on this website for a complete listing by county of resources to
assist in weight loss
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Physical Activity
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Smoking
Cessation
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Stress Management
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Other General Links
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© 2006 North Carolina Alliance for Healthy Communities
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