Ideally healthy workplace efforts do not happen in an activity by activity fashion but are part of a broader, comprehensive healthy workplace program that involves activities implemented over time in response to employee needs as part of a well thought out plan.

Promoting more that one healthy lifestyle topic at a time provides many benefits:

• It allows you to promote the prevention of many chronic diseases at the same time (example; heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer).
• It provides the most effective way to address obesity prevention (example; encouraging employees to increase their physical activity levels and eat healthy foods).
• It provides activities that appeal to more employees.
• It provides programming, which helps employees to understand the many factors that relate to health.

Outlined in the module, are recommended initiatives workplaces may use to promote healthy eating, physical activity, tobacco-free living and stress management at the same time.  All of the initiatives in this section promote more that one healthy lifestyle topic at the same time.

In this section you will find:

• Ways to Promote More than One Healthy Lifestyle Topic
• List of Broader Approaches to Try
• Healthy Measures Tool Kit
• Healthy Weight, Healthy You
• Controlling Obesity in the Workplace Checklist
• Policy: The Key to a Healthy Workplace - A Guide to Making Your Organization Healthier
• Additional Initiatives to Promote More that One Healthy Lifestyle Topic
• Recommended Websites to Promote More than One Healthy Lifestyle Topic
• References

One great resource in Haldimand-Norfolk is the Health Unit. For more information please contact Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit at 519-426-6170/905-318-6623 (free from 905)