42 U.S.C. § 280l — Technical assistance for employer-based wellness programs

submitted 82 years ago by Pub. L. 111-148 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 171 words · no verdicts yet

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The Director must help employers evaluate their workplace wellness programs. This includes giving tools, training, and advice on measuring participation and health results. The Director must also make evaluation help available through resources like web portals.

To help workplaces use more evidence-based wellness and health programs, the Director must: (1) Give employers of all sizes technical help, advice, tools, and other resources to check their wellness programs, including (A) measuring and boosting employee participation, (B) building standard ways to measure whether policy and workplace changes are improving employee health, behavior, and health costs, and (C) checking how these programs affect employee health, absenteeism, productivity, workplace injuries, and medical costs. (2) Build up workplace staff's ability to evaluate wellness programs, by training employers to do evaluations and making sure evaluation help — like web portals or call centers — is available when needed.

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In order to expand the utilization of evidence-based prevention and health promotion approaches in the workplace, the Director shall—

(1)

provide employers (including small, medium, and large employers, as determined by the Director) with technical assistance, consultation, tools, and other resources in evaluating such employers’ employer-based wellness programs, including—

(A)

measuring the participation and methods to increase participation of employees in such programs;

(B)

developing standardized measures that assess policy, environmental and systems changes necessary to have a positive health impact on employees’ health behaviors, health outcomes, and health care expenditures; and

(C)

evaluating such programs as they relate to changes in the health status of employees, the absenteeism of employees, the productivity of employees, the rate of workplace injury, and the medical costs incurred by employees; and

(2)

build evaluation capacity among workplace staff by training employers on how to evaluate employer-based wellness programs and ensuring evaluation resources, technical assistance, and consultation are available to workplace staff as needed through such mechanisms as web portals, call centers, or other means.

Source credit: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 399MM, as added and amended Pub. L. 111–148, title IV, § 4303, title X, § 10404, Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 583, 975.)

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1944Enacted · Pub. L. 111-148 · 124 Stat. 583, 975

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