Implementing Strategies to Enhance Public Health Surveillance of Physical Activity in the United States (2019) / Chapter Skim
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Workplace physical activity surveillance can capture the amount of time an individual engages in physical activity or sedentary behaviors throughout the day, job-specific physical activity or sedentary behavior, an employee's level of physical fitness, physical activity or sedentary time during commuting, availability and use of workplace programs that support physical activity, and the types of policies that encourage physical activity such as paid time off to be active or promotion of active commuting to and from work. Physical activity surveillance in the workplace is not straightforward to implement.
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Moreover, understanding which employers and employees are captured in surveillance systems is important for future analysis of disparities in rates of physical activity or sedentary behavior, as well as underlying inequities in workplace practices. Fourth, several factors are considered crucial to supporting a culture of health and well-being at work, including workplace policies, benefit design, work conditions, and the built and psychosocial environments within the walls of the workplace, in the case of a brick-and-mortar building, as well as while traveling to and from a workplace.
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Findings It would be beneficial to create a compendium of current workplace surveillance efforts, which would help identify gaps. A comprehensive analysis of existing efforts could serve as the foundation for future programmatic, policy, systems, and environmental change work and advocacy efforts.
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Securing information on these administrative and financial implications is important for the federal appropriations process and fundraising efforts related to expanding surveillance efforts. Supporting Actions for Implementation The committee recommends the following actions to support this strategy: Supporting Action 13.1: CDC; the American Heart Association; state, tribal, and local public health agencies; or HERO should con duct a comprehensive analysis of existing workplace surveillance efforts, including identifying existing gaps, by 2020.
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Standardizing the measures would support consistency in the physical activity surveillance that informs outcome evaluation, benchmarking, and individually tailored, evidence-based programming across the worksite health promotion field. Supporting Actions for Implementation: The committee recommends the following actions to support this strategy: Supporting Action 14.1: CDC, HERO, Population Health Alliance, and/or the American Heart Association should convene employers; vendors; health plans; state, tribal, and local public health agencies; and other salient stakeholders to obtain support for disseminat ing and using the consensus measures to assess physical activity, physical fitness, and sedentary behavior in worksites described in Whitsel et al.
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Supporting Action 14.3: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the National Quality Forum, and the National Com mittee for Quality Assurance should integrate these metrics into performance and quality measure development to create seam less delivery of care and health surveillance between the health care system and worksite health promotion, including optimal and consistent use of mobile health technologies. There should be purposeful integration between specific health care provider net works and employer-supported programming whenever possible to enhance surveillance applications and contribute to improved service delivery.
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Supporting Actions for Implementation The committee recommends the following actions to support this strategy: Supporting Action 15.1: CDC, HERO, or the American Heart Association should convene an expert advisory group of a cademics, employers, state and public health agencies, and lead ing organizations to identify existing standards and develop a core set of evidence-based measures that support consistent adoption of healthier building standards (e.g., Fitwel, International Well Building Institute) by employers, architects, and real estate devel opers as well as other cultural, policy, and environmental support measures that promote active workplaces and active commuting.
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. The last nationally representative, federally funded survey of employers' workplace health promotion offerings was conducted in 2004 and indicated that 19.6 percent of employers offered physical activity–related programming (Linnan et al., 2008)
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Supporting Action 16.2: Advocacy organizations, such as the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, the American Heart Association, the Population Health Alliance, and Trust for America's Health, should partner with researchers; state, tribal, and local public health agencies; providers; health plans; and employers to communicate the benefits of the WHA survey and garner sup port for future cycles of the survey. CONCLUSION Employed adults spend many of their waking hours on the job, which makes workplaces an important environment for promoting physical activity and conducting physical activity surveillance.
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2019. Assessing physical activity, sedentary behavior, and cardiorespiratory fitness in worksite health promotion.
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