CREATING HEALTHY WORKPLACES - Helping employers build healthy and supportive work environments

The following resources will help you take the steps you and your workforce need: Understand obesity as a disease and a risk 1 factor for other diseases 2 Use best-practice to build healthy workplaceenvironments 3 Communicate with employees effectivelyand sensitively on the topic of obesity We invite you to use World Obesity Day on March 4th as an opportunity to engage with your employees about ob. [...] Why now? 800 400 1.9 MILLION MILLION OBESITY billion 800 Million people children around the world Obesity is a disease and people around the around the are expected to be a risk factor for other world living with world are living living with obesity by 2035. [...] The social and cultural context of a country will impact the perception of overweight and obesity. [...] It is therefore important to ensure that messaging about obesity is tailored to the local and national context. [...] Recognise the impact of stress on obesity and adopt written and unwritten policies that explicitly encourage employees to prioritise health throughout the working day.