The Healthy Workplace of the 21st Century: The Benefit of Organizational Wellness Programs on Employee Health and Absenteeism

Every year, obesity rates continue to rise and have reached epidemic proportions throughout the United States. The costs associated with obesity are staggering and many researchers feel that the workplace should be the new front line in the battle for a healthier workforce. Employers must take action to address this worsening health crisis and help reduce spiraling medical costs and absenteeism rates. This capstone reviews the current literature on wellness programs and discusses different companies' approaches to wellness programs that have special emphasis on nutrition and physical activity. It also provides strategies and recommendations for companies eager to initiate a comprehensive, dynamic and directed wellness program to improve the current and future health of their workforce.

Special Education and the Risk of Becoming Less Educated in Germany and the United States. CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 05.1, 13 December, 2004

Over the twentieth century, a growing group of students has been transferred into considerably expanded special education systems. These programs serve children with diagnosed impairments and disabilities and students with a variety of learning difficulties. Children and youth “with special educational needs” constitute a heterogeneous group with social, ethnic, linguistic, and physical disadvantages. An increasingly large percentage of those students at risk of leaving school without credentials participate in special education, a highly legitimated low status (and stigmatizing) school form. While most countries commit themselves to school integration or inclusive education to replace segregated schools and separate classes, cross-national and regional comparisons of special education’s diverse student bodies show considerable disparities in their (1) rates of classification, (2) provided learning opportunities, and (3) educational attainments. Analyzing special education demographics and organizational structures indicates which children and youth are most likely to grow up less educated and how educational systems distribute educational success and failure. Findings from a German-American comparison show that which students bear the greatest risk of becoming less educated depends largely on definitions of “special educational needs” and the institutionalization of special education systems.

State of Rhode Island Special Adjudication for Enforcement - volume II: evaluation of driver retraining schools. Analytic study. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Driver and Pedestrian Programs, Washington, D.C.

State of Rhode Island Special Adjudication for Enforcement - volume III: analysis of the administrative adjudication of traffic offenses. Analytic study. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Driver and Pedestrian Programs, Washington, D.C.

State of Rhode Island Special Adjudication for Enforcement - technical summary. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Driver and Pedestrian Programs, Washington, D.C.

A system for diagnosis, referral, and rehabilitation of persons convicted of driving while intoxicated: a special rehabilitation program for multiple offenders. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Implementing universal newborn hearing screening programs : early identification of hearing loss.

Shipping list no.: 99-0282-P.

The President's fiscal year 1989 budget proposal : how it would affect programs for older Americans : an information paper /

"Serial no. 100-G."

Special Motor Vehicle Diagnostic Inspection Demonstration Project. Executive summary. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Special adjudication for enforcement (SAFE). Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Driver and Pedestrian Programs, Washington, D.C.

A national conversation on American pluralism and identity : special competition.

Mode of access: Internet.

Special milk program evaluation and national school lunch program survey /

"FNS-167."

Documentation of computer programs and automated data systems : proceedings of a symposium held at the National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD, October 12, 1976 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Toxaphene status report: special report to the Hazardous Materials Advisory Committee, Environment Protection Agency, November 1971. /

Mode of access: Internet.

Administrative guidance for verification of national school lunch, breakfast and special milk applications.

"Education is everyone's future."