Map Details - Minnesota President's Network Worksite Health Initiative Reach and Impact

The President’s Network Worksite Health Initiative engages local chambers of commerce and business leaders through roundtable events in their local communities. These roundtables are designed to engage leadership to be thought leaders, role models, and advocates for new and better health care policies and programs within their companies and communities. The roundtables also provide essential tools, resources, and best practices to senior leadership to help them make Minnesota the healthiest state in the union in which to work and live.

Business leaders are given new tools and other resources to help them guide their organizations to more effective programs and policies relative to their health initiatives. This map demonstrates the potentially deep impact in communities with high participation in the President’s Network worksite wellness initiative. It also demonstrates the broad impact of this initiative across multiple Minnesota communities, and highlights regions of the state to target in future roundtables during 2012.

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Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages, Minnesota Department of Employment & Economic Development; Survey data collected by the President’s Network and the Minnesota Department of Health.

Bivariate mapping with proportional circles representing the total number of individuals employed by the companies and organizations taking part in the President’s Network Worksite Health Initiative and the color representing the total number of employed persons in each community potentially impacted by this initiative. The proportion of total employment in each community was determined by dividing the total employment covered by participating organizations in each community by the total yearly average employment (2010 or 2011) reported in the Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages by the Minnesota Department of Employment & Economic Development.

James Peacock, Epidemiologist Senior, Minnesota Department of Health
(651) 201-5405
james.peacock@state.mn.us

The President’s Network Worksite Health Initiative, Reach and Impact, 2010-2011 Peacock, James, Minnesota Department of Health, [TODAY’S DATE].