When employees develop cancer, businesses bear not only the direct medical costs of the disease, but also the indirect costs associated with lost work time, disability payments, loss of a trained employee, and retraining. Research has confirmed that aggressive prevention and screening programs can be, and indeed are, effective in limiting the number and severity of cancer cases. Primary prevention and early detection programs are two important ways of combatting cancer. Primary prevention programs can be aimed at reducing smoking, improving diet, and reducing exposure to occupational hazards. Early detection programs could concentrate on screening for breast, colorectal, uterine, and/or lung cancer. The National Cancer Institute has encouraged industry to offer health promotion programs and screening programs to employees, collaborate with employee groups to promote worksite health promotion programs, monitor employee use of measures to prevent exposure to carcinogens in the workplace, offer on-site food options congruent with cancer prevention, and develop insurance policies that reward risk-avoidance behaviors. (Twenty-three examples of companies that have developed cancer prevention programs and a list of resource organizations and materials devoted to cancer prevention are included in this document.) (MN)
Authors
- Authorizing Institution
- Washington Business Group on Health, Washington, DC.
- Peer Reviewed
- F
- Publication Type
- Reports - Descriptive
- Published in
- United States of America
- Sponsor
- Public Health Service (DHHS), Rockville, MD. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
Table of Contents
- When an 10
- Office of 16
- A diet high in fat 18
- The ACS recommends that women at 19
- The adverse health effects of cigarette smoking 22
- 40 and 32
- 80 percent of women report having done BSE 34
- The Gallup survey also collected data 34
- Of adults 50 and 36
- The ACS suggests women at high risk of developing endometrial 37
- There are a number 42
- Programs need to emphasize the concept of general health and 42
- The CHIP 45
- The Coors Wellness Center offers 47
- ATT has in cancer prevention and 47
- A smoking policy was 50
- These programs are held during lunch hours 50
- Over 20 percent of the 55
- Health and 58
- The Office works to promote health and prevent disease 62
- The Office on Smoking and Health produces and distributes 62
- The Leukemia Society of America 64
