Wednesday, March 28, 2012
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This Week's News
Report spells out how to promote wellness in nation's hospitals
A new report lists 15 recommendations that explain how to make the nation's hospitals healthier workplaces for physicians and others.
An expert panel convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and represented by 17 organizations, including the AMA, developed the report's recommendations in four areas: food, physical activity opportunities, breastfeeding and lactation support, and tobacco cessation. The recommendations are intended to serve as an initial step in ensuring that the nation's hospitals are healthy environments that support preventing chronic disease in employees, patients, visitors and surrounding communities.
The report's recommendations include:
- Collaboration between hospitals and public health practitioners to establish healthy food and beverage standards.
- Creating model policies and plans for the use of open spaces to promote physical activity and connectivity between institutions.
- Establishing and implementing a marketing campaign to increase knowledge and awareness around breastfeeding that targets administrators, management and staff at all levels.
- Establishing tobacco-free campuses.
- Developing collaborative research on changes in policy and environment measures and health outcomes.
The report is part of the CDC's Healthier Worksite Initiative, an effort to promote health in the workforce through programs that reduce costs to employers and improve employee health and morale.
