Health and Wellness at Work

Welcome to our collection of Web sites elated to health and wellness generally.  Also check the Stress Management category.  As we progress, the site and an instruction regarding what is available at the site will be placed in the appropriate heading in the Chapter Outlines.

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.

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

Health Psychology: American Psychological Association: Health Psychology.

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 women's 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."

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.

Factors in weight gain, How Men and Women Differ in Their Weight Loss.

Losing weight: Tip of the Day.

Hand diagram  Here is a diagram of the hand showing how it's affected by carpal tunnel syndrome.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome at Healthtrek.

Designing a Better Keyboard   Desk and chair design may help the afflicted.  Look also at: PC Accessories presents Waterloo's FAMILY OF COMPUTER KEYBOARD SUPPORT SYSTEMS

Try a foot mouse

A new glove?

Ergonomics and the Impact of Modular Terminals

Prepared by Mark Garrison, September, 1997
Modified, February, 1998