Health and Wellness

Stress and Its Causes

For a large number of sites about stress, go to the Human Relations on the Net pages:   Stress Management
 
The Physiological Effects

Psychological Stress

Everyday Stressors

Catastrophic Stressors

Measuring Stress

Workplace Stress

Overload

Time Pressure

Organizational and Personal Change

Technology

Career Challenges

Conflict

Ways of Coping

Type A Behavior

Systematic Coping

Stress Management through More Effective Coping

The Corporate Responsibility

The Goals of Corporate Wellness Programs

WellTech
The worksite health promotion program directory is provided to increase awareness of workplace programs and their impact on employees. Lists lots of companies.
WellTech list of Associations, Organizations, and Institutes that deal with wellness.

Wellness
The UCI Health Promotion Center's Top-12 List of Corporate Health Strategies.

Wellness Design

Common Features of Wellness Programs

Program Success

Health and Fitness

Stress

Exercise

Exercise
Promoting exercise: Dr. Koop Issues Action Plan to Implement Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health, Washington, D.C.; July 11, 1996.
Couch potato and exercise: The Couch Potato's Lament: Why Exercise Isn't a Habit.
Nutrition and Diet
Weight Control
Factors in weight gain, How Men and Women Differ in Their Weight Loss.
Losing weight: Tip of the Day.

Health sites
Health Psychology: American Psychological Association: Health Psychology.
Illnesses and Lifestyle
Cancer Related Links, everything you ever wanted to know about cancer, and more, can be found from this page.
The Health Authority Quitting Smoking, includes interesting data under the Good Reasons to Quit section.
Serum Cholesterol and Coronary Heart Disease Clinical Study: research, but brief, concise, and easy-to-read.
Serum cholesterol and womens health: Women's Health Interactive.
Emotions: Mood and Health. Teaching Optimism Skills in the Workplace.
Hostility and heart disease: this article is about "a particular kind of hostility--called aggressive responding."
Coronary Heart Disease

Cancer

AIDS

Safety and Health

Meeting Wellness and Health Goals

Productive Thinking

Highlighted company names in the index are linked to the corporation's homepage. For additional, current information about the company, check their site. The number to the right of the company is the page number in the text where the company is discussed. Other resources include Hoover's database and Web search engines.

Go to the Index of Companies in Chapter 13

Prepared by Mark Garrison, January, 1998