Making Healthy Behaviors the Easy Choice for Employees: A Review of the Literature on Environmental and Policy Changes in Worksite Health Promotion

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 752-776

  Kahn Marshall, Jennifer L ^a   Gallant, Mary P ^b  

^a Cornell Cooperative Extension Schenectady County and Schenectady County Public Health Services ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

Author keywords

health policy; health promotion; nutrition; physical activity exercise; worksite health promotion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIET; ENVIRONMENT; EXERCISE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; WORKPLACE;

DIET; ENVIRONMENT; EXERCISE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84871372220     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198111434153     Document Type: Article

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