Table 2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Resources Available to Promote Cancer Prevention in the Workplace.

Resource/Goal or Purpose	Target Audience	Content	Cancer-Related Factors Addressed
Community Health Resources: Worksite Wellness, Community Health and Program Services Branch, http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/dach_chaps/Default/LinksHealthTopic.aspx?topic=26
Assistance for community health partners, coalitions, and activists as they navigate CDC’s Web-based resources	Employers, employees, and worksite health promotion planners	Searchable database; communications and marketing campaigns; cross-cutting programs; data and statistics; guidelines and recommendations; policy, partnership, and planning tools	Tobacco use; diet and nutrition; physical activity; weight management; screening and early detection
Essential Elements of Effective Workplace Programs and Policies for Improving Worker Health and Wellbeing, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/TWH/essentials.html
Guide for employers and employer–employee partnerships wishing to establish effective comprehensive work-based health protection and health promotion programs that sustain and improve worker health	Employers, employees, and worksite health promotion planners	Framework of 20 components categorized by organizational culture and leadership, program design, program implementation and resources, and program evaluation; guiding principles; practical direction	Tobacco use; diet and nutrition; physical activity; weight management
Healthier Worksite Initiative, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/hwi/index.htm
Comprehensive one-stop–shop resource for workforce health promotion program planners	Worksite health promotion planners in state and federal government	Resources on a wide variety of workforce health promotion topics; program design tools and information about program planning and needs assessments; basic information about policies that affect health promotion at federal workplaces that also explains why they are important; resources and links to documents and websites with credible, useful information	Tobacco use; diet and nutrition; physical activity; weight management; screening and early detection
Healthy Hospital Choices, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/hwi/docs/HealthyHospBkWeb.pdf
Summary of meeting and recommendations for action from expert panel on policy and environmental approaches to improve hospital worksite wellness	Hospital employers, hospital administrators, and public health practitioners	15 recommendations to improve the physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco-free environments of hospitals for their employees, patients, and visitors	Tobacco use; diet and nutrition; physical activity
Investing in Health Guide, Partnership for Prevention in collaboration with CDC, http://www.prevent.org/Worksite-Health/Investing-in-Health-Workplace-Guide.aspx
Guide to provide employers with guidance that can improve employee health	Employers	Easy-to-follow action steps translated from evidence-based recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force and the Task Force on Community Preventive Services; guide to help employers manage health care spending and improve employee morale	Tobacco use; diet and nutrition; physical activity; screening and early detection
Leading by Example, Partnership for Prevention in collaboration with CDC, http://www.prevent.org/initiatives/leading-by-example.aspx
Peer-to-peer communication campaign to educate chief executive officers about the benefits of worksite health promotion and encourage employers to adopt effective practices to improve employee health	Chief executive officers, upper-level management, and employers	Publications to leverage the workplace to improve health by promoting greater business involvement in health promotion and disease prevention; publications to help chief executive officers influence the American health care system to emphasize prevention rather than treatment	Tobacco use; diet and nutrition; physical activity; screening and early detection
Lean Works!, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, http://www.cdc.gov/leanworks/
Free Web-based resource to help employers respond to the obesity epidemic	Employers and worksite health promotion planners	Interactive tools; evidence-based resources; obesity cost calculator	Diet and nutrition; physical activity; weight management
National Healthy Worksite Program, Division of Population Health, http://www.cdc.gov/nationalhealthyworksite/index.html
Program designed to assist employers in implementing science-based and practice-based prevention and wellness strategies that will lead to specific, measureable health outcomes to reduce chronic disease rates	Employers and worksite health promotion planners	Stepwise approach to create or improve a workplace health program; comprehensive tool kit to support training as well as supporting materials and guidance for employers; community and national training opportunities; webinars and teleconferences; on-going evaluation	Tobacco use; diet and nutrition; physical activity; weight management
Promising Practices for Total Worker Health (TWH), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/TWH/practices.html
Quarterly feature in the electronic newsletter TWH in Action! to describe program design, frameworks, and implementation and to serve as a resource for understanding components of effective integrated safety and health programs	Employers, workers, human resource professionals, workplace safety and health professionals, and worksite health promotion professionals	Case examples that demonstrate characteristics of employer programs that aim to integrate health protection and health promotion	Tobacco use; diet and nutrition; physical activity; weight management; long work hours, fatigue, shift work, and healthy sleep
Save Lives, Save Money: Make Your Business Smoke-Free, Office on Smoking and Health, http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/secondhand_smoke/guides/business/
Brochure that provides information on exposure to secondhand smoke in the workplace and the benefits to employers once a smoke-free workplace has been implemented	Employers	Informational brochure	Tobacco use
School Employee Wellness: A Guide for Protecting the Assets of Our Nation’s Schools, Directors of Health Promotion and Education in collaboration with CDC, http://www.healthyschoolsms.org/staff_health/documents/EntireGuide.pdf
Comprehensive guide that provides information, practical tools, and resources for school employee wellness programs	School district policy makers, school administrators, and employees	Resources to promote the benefits of school employee wellness programs; model for establishing, implementing, and sustaining a school employee wellness program; practical tools and resources to support the implementation of school employee wellness programs	Tobacco use; diet and nutrition; physical activity; weight management; screening and early detection
Steps to Wellness, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/hwi/toolkits/pa-toolkit.htm
Guide to implementing the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans in the Workplace, provides easy and understandable steps on how to increase the physical activity of employees in the workplace	Employers and worksite health promotion planners	A document explaining why businesses should create a culture that values physical activity for its employees; steps to take to promote physical activity and create a culture of wellness in the workplace; tools and templates to help businesses plan, promote, and implement workplace physical activities; additional resources about physical activities and worksite wellness programs	Physical activity
Swift Worksite Assessment and Translation, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/hwi/programdesign/swat.htm
Evaluation method to rapidly assess and identify promising practices in workplace health promotion programs	Employers	Site identification and selection; 2-day site visit; post-visit assessment of promising practices; evaluation capacity-building; translation and dissemination	Diet and nutrition; physical activity; weight management
Workplace Health Promotion Portal, Division of Population Health, http://www.cdc.gov/workplacehealthpromotion/
Online tool kit for active approaches to improving employee health	Employers and worksite health promotion planners	Wide variety of information, tools, resources, and guidance for employers; searchable database by topics of interest; assessment, planning, workplace governance, implementation, and evaluation modules	Tobacco use; diet and nutrition; physical activity; screening and early detection
Worksite Health ScoreCard, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/pubs/worksite_scorecard.htm
Tool to help employers assess whether they have implemented evidence-based health promotion interventions or strategies in their worksites	Employers and worksite health promotion planners	12 topic sections; valid and reliable assessment tool for comprehensive health promotion and disease prevention programs; identification of program gaps and prioritization of high-impact strategies	Tobacco use; diet and nutrition; physical activity; weight management; screening and early detection