title: The Healthiest Company Index: a campaign to promote worksite wellness in South Africa.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe a 2010 initiative to encourage companies in South Africa to adopt workplace health promotion programs.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data documenting organizational efforts to improve workers' health were collected from 71 participating employers and 11,472 workers completing health assessments. Organizational and employee health were scored on the basis of responses to the surveys that asked about facilities and programs offered, leadership support for health promotion, and employees' health status.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In its first year, the initiative recruited 101 organizations and 71 qualified for the award. Results aggregated across these companies focus on elements constituting organizational and individual health, with specific measures that companies can review to determine whether they and their employees are "healthy."
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Healthiest Company Index provided useful baseline data to support employers' efforts to develop and implement effective and impactful health promotion programs.
authors.affiliation: Discovery Health, Johannesburg, South Africa.
authors.forename: Deepak
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Ron Z
authors.initials: RZ
authors.lastname: Goetzel
authors.forename: Meghan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beckowski
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Milner
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Greyling
authors.forename: Roseanne
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.forename: Tracy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kolbe-Alexander
authors.forename: Maryam J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Tabrizi
authors.forename: Craig
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nossel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006304:Health Status; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013019:South Africa; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data