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Health, wellbeing and productivity in the workplace is a recent RAND report that uses data collected from the Britain’s Healthiest Company competition to investigate connections between lost productivity at work at a range of personal and environmental factors.

Originally released in 2012, the CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard (HSC) is a freely available online tool. Four new topics have been added to the tool including 10 questions around occupational health and safety.

A CWHP report on Consumerism, Self-Care Trends and the Broader Value of Health suggests the importance of education and tools to assist individuals in making smart treatment decisions -- whether in the formal treatment system or through self-care alternatives.

It is well-known in the public health field that health services account for, on average, about 10% of health, while additional factors account for the remaining 90%, including contributors such as genetics, health behaviors, socio-economic circumstances and environmental influences. 

An array of CDC tools are publicly-available to employers interested in workforce health improvement using evidence-based practices.