Healthy Leadership for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的长期目标是开发一个基于电子的程序，以促进在工作场所提供心血管健康促进方案。短期目标是建立一个互联网项目，培训管理人员和行政人员促进个人和工作场所的健康。由于“涓滴效应”，领导者的健康行为会给组织带来巨大的医疗成本：(1)领导者为员工树立健康或不健康行为的榜样；(2)领导风格和决策可以影响工作环境中的心理社会风险和保护因素；(3)管理者和高管会决定员工是否接受健康促进计划，简而言之，健康计划会引发员工心理健康行为的积极变化，从而影响高管和他们的业务。为了吸引高管，该项目将在与业务相关的领导力发展项目中传达健康信息。课程内容将借鉴健康的生活方式与领导者中已知的行为风险（压力、社会孤立、权力动机）之间的经验关系。互动练习将以专家意见为特色，并将领导技巧与识别/解决心脏病心理社会风险的工具相结合。在第一阶段，将开发一个原型网站并进行试点测试。主管和经理将接受采访，并提供互联网接入和评估工具，以评估该计划的潜在用途。评估数据将为项目的第二阶段开发提供基础，该项目旨在培训领导者自我评估风险，选择健康项目，并利用战略向工人传播类似的项目。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of the project is to develop an electronically-based program that facilitates delivery of cardiovascular health promotion programs to workplaces. The short-term objective is to create an Internet program that trains managers and executives in personal and workplace health promotion. Leader health behavior can present significant medical costs to an organization because of "trickle-down" effects: (1) leaders model healthy or unhealthy behavior to associates, (2) leadership style and decision-making can impact psycho-social risk and protective factors in the work environment, and (3) managers and executives make decisions about whether employees will receive health promotion programs, in short, wellness programs that elicit a positive change in heart healthy behavior affect both executives and their business. To appeal to executives, the program will couch health messages within a business-relevant leadership development program. Program content will draw on the empirical relationship between healthy life-style and known behavioral risks in leaders (stress, social isolation, power motivation). Interactive exercises will feature expert opinions and integrate leadership tips with tools for recognizing/addressing psycho-social risks for heart disease. A prototype web-site will be developed and pilot-tested in Phase I. Executives and managers will be interviewed, and provided Internet access along with evaluation instruments to assess potential usefulness of the program. Evaluation data will provide the basis for Phase II development of a program designed to train leaders to self-assess risks, select health programs, and utilize strategies to disseminate similar programs for workers.