2 results match your criteria: "Harvard School of Public Health (Dr Pronk)[Affiliation]"

Making the workplace a more effective site for prevention of noncommunicable diseases in adults.

J Occup Environ Med

November 2014

From The Vitality Institute (Drs Tryon and Yach), New York, NY; The Vitality Group (Mr Bolnick), Chicago, Ill.; Department of Public Health (Ms Pomeranz), Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; and Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health (Dr Pronk), Boston, Mass.

Objective: Efforts to realize the potential of disease prevention in the United States have fallen behind those of peer countries, and workplace disease prevention is a major gap. This article investigates the reasons for this gap.

Methods: Literature review and expert discussions.

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The association between optimal lifestyle-related health behaviors and employee productivity.

J Occup Environ Med

July 2014

From HealthPartners (Dr Katz, Dr Pronk, and Ms Lowry); HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research (Drs Katz and Pronk), Minneapolis, Minn; and Harvard School of Public Health (Dr Pronk), Boston, Mass.

Objective: To investigate the association between lifestyle-related health behaviors including sleep and the cluster of physical activity, no tobacco use, fruits and vegetables intake, and alcohol consumption termed the "Optimal Lifestyle Metric" (OLM), and employee productivity.

Methods: Data were obtained from employee health assessments (N = 18,079). Regression techniques were used to study the association between OLM and employee productivity, sleep and employee productivity, and the interaction of both OLM and sleep on employee productivity.

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