Employee Participation in Workplace Health Promotion and Wellness Programs: How Important Are Incentives, and Which Work Best?
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Do workplace health promotion (wellness) programs work?
OBJECTIVE To respond to the question, "Do workplace health promotion programs work?" METHODS A compilation of the evidence on workplace programs' effectiveness coupled with recommendations for critical review of outcome studies. Also, reviewed are recent studies questioning the value of workplace programs. RESULTS Evidence accumulated over the past three decades shows that well-designed and...
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عنوان ژورنال: North Carolina Medical Journal
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0029-2559,0029-2559
DOI: 10.18043/ncm.67.6.431