At a glance
The CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard is a tool that helps employers evaluate and improve their workplace health promotion programs. It helps identify gaps, prioritize improvements, and ensure that programs follow proven health practices.
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What is the CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard
The CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard is a tool designed to help employers evaluate how well their workplace health programs are doing.
The scorecard helps guide employers to:
- Create healthier workplaces.
- Identify evidence-based strategies to lower the risk of chronic diseases in workers.
- Create supportive work environments.
Why it matters
Adopting healthy lifestyles can prevent chronic diseases, which are common, costly, and threaten the competitiveness of businesses due to lost productivity and high health care costs.
Many employers use workplace health programs to reduce health care costs by fostering a healthier work environment.
The most effective approach to promoting workplace health is a comprehensive program that combines wellness activities with efforts to reduce worker risks and create environmental supports for healthy worker behaviors.
The scorecard can help employers find gaps in their programs and focus on key strategies to improve employee health and well-being.
How the CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard works
The scorecard has 154 questions for employers. These questions assess how well a workplace implements evidence-based health promotion strategies.
These strategies include:
- Lifestyle counseling services.
- Environmental supports.
- Health policies.
- Health plan benefits.
- Other worksite programs.
ScoreCard results identify the strengths and weaknesses in a health program so employers can make improvements to enhance them.
Who should use the CDC Worksite Health Score Card
The scorecard is useful for anyone involved in workplace health promotion. Examples include:
- Employers.
- HR managers.
- Health benefit managers.
- Health education staff.
- Occupational nurses.
- Medical directors.
- Wellness directors.
State and local health departments can also use the scorecard to help employers create healthier workplaces, monitor health practices, establish benchmarks, and direct resources effectively.
To use the CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard
- Create an account: Sign up on the CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard website.
- Complete the questions: Answer the questions to evaluate your current health programs.
- Review results: Identify strengths and weaknesses in your health programs.
Getting started
Featured resources
Introduction to the CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard
Provides an overview of the scorecard, its functions, and benefits.
Access the scorecard
Register and log into the CDC Worksite Health Scorecard to start using the tool.
Guide to using the scorecard
User guide and video tutorials offer step-by-step guidance to complete the scorecard and interpret results.
Read the scorecard FAQs
Offers answers to frequently asked questions about the scorecard.
Use the scorecard glossary
Definitions of terms used throughout the scorecard.