General Toolkit

Employers can play a pivotal role in reducing cancer incidence and premature death. Healthier employees and healthier bottom lines can be achieved by providing evidence-based prevention and early detection services and encouraging employee engagement. By providing access and encouraging participation, more lives – and more money - can be saved.

Employers of all sizes, from diverse industries, and across geographies that have earned CEO Cancer Gold Standard™ accreditation are making a difference.

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Gold Standard Application Guide:

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This study adds to the growing evidence that a healthy and safe workforce correlates with a company’s performance and its ability to provide positive returns to shareholders.

Tracking the Market Performance of Companies That Integrate a Culture of Health and Safety

Fabius, Raymond MD, Ronald R. Loeppke, MD, MPH, Todd Hohn, CSP, Dan Fabius, DO, Barry Eisenberg, CAE, Doris L. Konicki, MHS, and Paul Larson, MS

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

General Best Practices

Work/Life Center

SAS

Prevention

Work | Life Center

SAS’ corporate culture and benefits package tie in perfectly with the Five Pillars. The Recreation & Fitness Center offers an abundance of exercise and wellness programs. The Work/Life Center helps employees balance busy personal and professional lives. With unrestricted access to preventive services at the Health Care Center and a medical plan that pays 100 percent for preventive care (as well as for tobacco cessation treatment), SAS employees enjoy a work environment that encourages, supports and motivates them to live healthy lives.

Articles of Interest

Taking Stock of Wellness

Fitch, Kathryn and Bruce Pyenson

Benefits Quarterly

New ads accuse Big Tobacco of targeting soldiers and people with mental illness

Wan, William

Washington Post

Research & Evidence

Impact of HPV vaccination on oral HPV infections among young adults in the U.S.

Maura L. Gillison, Tatevik Broutian, Barry Graubard, Robert Pickard, Zhen-Yue Tong, Weihong Xiao, Lisa Kahle, Anil Chaturvedi; Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD; The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; Informat

Meeting Library, ASCO University

Do Workplace Wellness Programs Save Employers Money?

Rand Corporation

Brochures

Taking Part in Cancer Treatment Research Studies

If you have cancer, you may want to think about taking part in a clinical trial. Clinical trials are a treatment option for many people with cancer. This book explains cancer treatment clinical trials and gives you some things to think about when deciding whether to take part. This booklet is for people with cancer, their family, and friends.

Manager's Kit

After you’ve told your manager about your diagnosis, it will help to have a framework for discussions about your job. Understand that your manager will probably be worried for you — and for the company. The best antidote is information, which is why we created this kit. It contains need-to-know laws relating to cancer in the workplace; successful workplace strategies; tips for dealing with your HR department; and more. We recommend detaching this page and sharing the rest of the kit with your manager. Additional resources for both you and your employer can be found at cancerandcareers.org.

From Evidence to Practice: Workplace Wellness that Works

Employers know that keeping employees healthy is good for both the employees themselves and for the productivity and profitability of the business. However, most employers do not know precisely how to create a healthy workplace or healthy workforce. This workplace health promotion guide for employers fills that need: using the latest scientific evidence combined with expert opinion from business leaders, this guide offers easy to use, real world recommendations on the design, implementation, and evaluation of workplace health promotion programs. Employers can use this guide to implement best and promising practices in their workplaces, thereby maximizing the impact of their program and the benefits to employees and business alike.

Prepared by: Institute for Health and Productivity Studies Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health In collaboration with Transamerica Center for Health Studies®

External Resources

Nutrition & Healthy Weight

Aim for a Healthy Weight

National Institute of Health (NIH)

Reaching and maintaining a healthy weight is good for your overall health and will help you prevent and control many diseases and conditions.

Quality Treatment & Survivorship

Be The Boss over Cancer

Cancer + Careers

Cancer and Careers empowers and educates people with cancer to thrive in their workplace, by providing expert advice, interactive tools and educational events.

Tobacco Cessation

Tobacco-Free Living

U.S. Surgeon General

Tobacco free living means avoiding use of all types of tobacco products—such as cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, pipes and hookahs—and also living free from secondhand smoke exposure.

Physical Activity

ACS Guidelines for Nutrition and Physical Activity

American Cancer Society

While it is not clear exactly how excess body fat, consuming too many calories, and lack of physical activity raise cancer risk, there is no question that they are linked to an increased risk of many types of cancer and that they are a serious and growing health problem.

Screening

Cervical Cancer Screening

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Screening for cervical cancer using the Pap test has decreased the number of new cases of cervical cancer and the number of deaths due to cervical cancer since 1950.

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