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.

Are You Ready?

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Gold Standard Application Guide:

Use this guide to structure your approach to completing the online application. Download Print version here.

Application Download for Review

For reference only. The CEO Cancer Gold Standard™ application must be submitted online.

Gold Standard Organizations

Increased implementation of proven tobacco control interventions (e.g., tobacco price increases, smoke-free policies, media campaigns, and barrier-free access to cessation treatments) can increase the number of smokers who make a quit attempt and who succeed in quitting.

State-Specific Prevalence of Quit Attempts Among Adult Cigarette Smokers - United States, 2011-2017

Walton, MS, Kimp; Teresa W. Wang, PhD; Gillian L. Schauer, PhD; Sean Hu, MD; Henraya F. McGruder, PhD; Ahmed Jamal, MBBS; Stephen Babb, MPH

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Merck is at the forefront of cancer research, and our employees are our most critical resource to transform prevention and treatment of the disease. That’s why we’re pleased to be recognized with The Gold Standard. When our employees feel their best, they can be and do their best, which is crucial to helping us achieve our mission of improving and saving lives.

Ken Frazier

CEO & President

Merck & Co., Inc.

General Best Practices

HealthForce 2020

Johnson & Johnson

Health Education & Health Promotion, Overall Wellness Programs

Johnson & Johnson is guided by Our Credo, whose employees are the heart, mind and soul of the Company. We are committed to helping employees, families and communities live well across their whole lives – spiritual, mental, physical and financial – enabling an engaged, purpose-driven workforce that improves health for humanity. To that end, we’ve set some bold goals and are on a mission to become the healthiest workforce.

The changes we’re making around the workplace focus on three main areas - Healthy Eating, Healthy Movement and Healthy Mind - and are intended to educate...

Articles of Interest

Not exercising worse for your health than smoking, diabetes and heart disease, study reveals

Drash, Wayne

CNN

Large Study Confirms that HPV Vaccine Prevents Cervical Cancer

National Cancer Institute

Research & Evidence

Structuring Legal, Ethical, And Practical Workplace Health Incentives: A Reply to Horwitz, Kelly, And DiNardo

Goetzel, Ron

Health Affairs | Blog

Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Washington, DC: The National Academies Press

Press Releases

CEO Roundtable on Cancer Celebrates Employers marking Ten-Year CEO Cancer Gold Standard™ Anniversary

Brochures/Reference

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®

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.

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.

External Resources

Nutrition & Healthy Weight

Smart Food Choices: How to Implement Food Service Guidelines in Public Facilities

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

The purpose of this document is to help you implement food service guidelines in your government work site or other public facilitya to increase the availability of healthier choices at food service venues, including cafeterias, concession stands, snack bars, and vending machines.

Winnable Battles: Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

The Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Winnable Battle materials below provide a snapshot of the context and background for this priority area, as well as descriptions of some of the systems, policy, and programmatic interventions pursued by CDC and our public health partners at the federal, state and local levels.

Quality Treatment & Survivorship

LIVESTRONG at the Y

The LIVESTRONG Foundation

Ongoing dialogue with cancer survivors through surveys and research led us to discover that a top concern among survivors was the difficulty of returning to physical activity after treatment. In response, LIVESTRONG partnered with the YMCA of the USA in 2007 to create LIVESTRONG at the YMCA, a 12-week physical activity program designed to get survivors back on their feet.

Vaccines

"Not My Child"

Additional Resources

Merck is currently running a media campaign titled “Not My Child,“ encouraging parents of adolescents to “get in the way” of certain HPV-related cancers.

Tobacco Cessation

Glossary of Terms: Tobacco Cessation Coverage and Health Insurance

American Lung Association

This glossary was designed to help public health when talking about cessation coverage in the context of both private insurance and Medicaid.

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