Success of Duke's Employee Wellness Program Featured by CDC
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the country's leading agency for health and safety, has highlighted Duke's employee wellness program as a successful model, a model where the "health of the individual is inseparable from the overall corporation."
The Fall 2004 issue of the CDC's Chronic Disease Notes & Reports newsletter features Duke's
LIVE FOR LIFE program and the impact it has made through its various services. The article in the newsletter, which reports on activities of interest to health professionals, focuses, in large part, on LIVE FOR LIFE's Pathways to Change program and how it has helped reduce or eliminate the health risk for employees with high cholesterol or high blood pressure.
In the article, Julie Joyner, manager of the LIVE FOR LIFE program, also
offer advice on health promotion programs for other employers based on the
unique aspects that have made Duke's model so successful. For more information,
visit the CDC's web
site.
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