[Voiceover] Introduction to the CDC's Worksite Health ScoreCard.
This brief tutorial provides an overview
of the CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard,
including its functions and benefits.
Additional tutorials explore, in greater detail, how to create
and manage an online Worksite Health ScoreCard account,
and complete the Health ScoreCard online;
as well as understand and use your scorecard results.
Since most of us spends a significant part of our time
at work, employers have a tremendous opportunity
to positively impact the health
and well-being of their employees.
When planning to offer workplace health programs, it's important
to understand what types of interventions
and strategies will be most effective at the organizational
or worksite level and at the individual or employee level.
The approach that has proven most effective is
to implement an evidence-based comprehensive health
promotion program.
As this graphic illustrates,
comprehensive health promotion programs work
across multiple levels:
The Individual level includes factors
that impact an employee's lifestyle.
The Interpersonal level focuses
on the employee's social networks.
The Organizational level examines the workplace
structure, culture, practices and policies.
And, the Environmental level describes the
physical workplace.
The CDC Worksite Health Scorecard includes questions
from all four areas.
So what is the CDC's Worksite Health ScoreCard?
It's a tool that was developed in 2008, by CDC and a panel
of experts, to help employers assess, track, and plan how
to implement evidence-based workplace health strategies.
It was created from existing worksite programs, tools,
resources, and literature and survey data
from workplace health interventions.
It consists of reliable and valid questions;
and has weighted scoring for each question based the level
of scientific evidence and the magnitude
of health impact for that strategy.
First published as a hardcopy manual and questionnaire,
the ScoreCard was released as an online application in 2014.
It is a free, easy-to-use system with several key features
that will be reviewed in this series of tutorials.
The CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard can be used to:
-Assess what health promotion activities are currently
in place within your organization -Plan the
strategies and interventions you could implement as part
of your workplace health program; and -Evaluate progress
in key health topic and programmatic areas
on an ongoing basis The ScoreCard can be used by anyone
who is responsible for promoting health in the workplace,
including human resource or health benefit managers,
health education staff, wellness coordinators and committees,
occupational nurses, and medical directors.
State or local health departments can help employers
and business coalitions use this tool to find ways
to create healthier workplaces, create best practice benchmarks,
and track improvements in health promotion programs
at their workplaces over time.
This information can help to direct resources
and support opportunities to improve programs.
Features of the online system include: - web-based completion
and scoring of the scorecard, saving you time and effort
in seeing your results; - tracking
and comparing your scores from one year to the next; -
and comparing your scores to other employers
who use the online system.
In addition, this tool can be used to assist you
in planning how to prioritize the topic areas where resources
and efforts could be focused.
The CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard consists
of 16 topic areas related to the leading health conditions,
driving health care and productivity costs.
It includes questions based on many key evidence-based
and best-practice strategies and interventions that are part
of a comprehensive worksite health approach specific
to these topic areas.
Here you can see the scorecard dashboard that lists each topic
and the number of questions.
After creating an account, completing the scorecard is
as easy as clicking on each topic and answering yes
or no to the questions.
When a topic is selected,
you can view the questions within each section.
Let's look at tobacco control.
As you can see there are 10 yes
or no questions related to tobacco control.
Each question represents an individual health promotion
strategy or intervention for that topic.
CDC recommendeds that you complete the ScoreCard annually,
answering the questions based on strategies
in place during the past 12 months.
Recall the initial graphic illustrating the components
of a comprehensive workplace health program:
-Individual level -Interpersonal level -Organizational level
-Environmental level Looking again at the tobacco questions,
we can see that these four areas are represented
in the questions: Green assesses individual-level referrals
to tobacco cessation resources; Blue assesses the availability
of group or individual counseling
at the interpersonal level Red assesses tobacco-free policies
and health insurance coverage presenting organizational
supports; and Purple assesses the display of no-smoking signs
and the sale of tobacco products on company property aimed
at the environmental level.
The point value reflects the level of impact
that the strategy has on the intended health behaviors
or outcomes, and the strength
of scientific evidence supporting this impact.
For example, in question 27, providing incentives
for current non-tobacco users,
is worth 1 point signifying it is a good practice.
In question 25, a "yes" response to providing low-
or no-cost tobacco cessation counseling is a better practice
and is worth 2 points.
In question 23, a "yes" response to providing coverage
for prescription tobacco cessation medications at low
or no cost is considered a best practice and is worth 3 points.
One of the most useful features of your online account is access
to multiple reports to evaluate your scorecard results
in different ways.
In this Summary Benchmark Report,
you can see each topic displayed to the left,
then the total points possible for each topic,
followed by the total points
for each year the scorecard was completed.
Up arrows in green and down arrows in red show the changes
in score by topic from year to year.
The last three columns are the benchmarking data that allow you
to compare your scores to other worksites in your organization,
to employers of similar size, and to all worksites
in the ScoreCard system.
Whereas the summary benchmark report shows you scores
by topic, the detailed benchmark report shows the scores
by question within each topic.
Benchmarks for the percentage of other worksites
in the ScoreCard database that currently have that strategy
in place are also shown in the three columns on the right.
Remember, the ScoreCard questions are given weighted
scores based on whether they are good, better, or best practices.
The Interventions in Place report allows you
to see how many of the good, better,
and best strategies your organization has
in place overall and by topic.
The reports allow you to take stock of where you are,
how your worksite compares to others,
and where you can fill gaps
in your workplace health program moving forward.
Offering workplace health programs is an investment
of time and money for employers.
Whether your company has a formal workplace wellness
program with budget and staff, or is just starting out,
the CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard can provide a roadmap
of strategies to improve your organization's effectiveness
in improving employee health.
The ScoreCard is a validated tool that is based on evidence
of what works for impacting employee health.
Setting up an account, and using the online scorecard system
and its reporting features, gives employers a way
to have greater impact on the health of their employees
and their organization.
Create an account today!
This concludes the introduction
to the CDC's Worksite Health ScoreCard.
If you have questions or need assistance, please contact us
at this email address.
You can visit our website
to access the Worksite Health ScoreCard User Guide
for more information.
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