A study published in the American Journal of Health Promotion found that almost half of all U.S. worksites offered some type of health promotion or wellness program in 2017.
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- CDC: Half of Workplaces Offer Health/Wellness Programs (archive.cdc.gov)
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0890117119854908 (journals.sagepub.com)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31167543/ (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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