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Monthly Health Topics

Inspire healthy living year-round with these featured topic emails, posters and more. Build your schedule based on the suggested monthly topics or develop a custom calendar for your business.

January

Fitness

Physical fitness can play a vital role in your workplace. It can enhance the health and safety of your employees, make them more engaged at work, and improve their overall job satisfaction. Regular exercise can reduce stress, improve sleep, and lead to fewer missed work days.¹ It can even help prevent costly conditions like heart disease and type 2 diabetes.^2,3

Exercise also boosts brain health and emotional resilience. It improves memory, attention, and focus and reduces anxiety and the risk for depression.^2,3

Explore our Healthy Lifestyle Toolkit for fitness resources you can use to improve your employees’ well-being.

Fitness offerings (Kaiser Permanente members)

Fitness and exercise

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Cancer Prevention

Use this cancer conversations guide as an actionable resource to champion prevention in the workplace and normalize difficult conversations surrounding cancer. Empower your employees to learn about cancer risks, prevention, screening, and care with these helpful resources and tools.

Cancer testimonial - genetic testing (video)

Cancer testimonial - beating colon cancer (video)

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Diabetes Management

Diabetes management can be made easier when your employees have the right resources at their disposal. Learn how KP's proactive approach to diabetes care helps minimize employee health risks. Help your employees understand how they can prevent and manage diabetes.

Diabetes care management (video)

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Depression Screening

Depression screening can help anyone – including your employees. Learn about the benefits of creating a stigma-free workplace and how it's key to tackling the mental health crisis. Share these resources to help your employees fight back against depression.

Depression self-assessment

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Sleep Management

Poor sleep is common among working-age adults and is linked to many negative workplace outcomes. Research shows inadequate sleep and poor sleep quality contribute to increased employee stress, depression, and fatigue, further impacting employee health and job performance.²⁰

The effects of chronic insufficient sleep extend beyond individual well-being, significantly affecting businesses and the economy. According to the CDC, only 61% of adults consistently get the recommended 7 or more hours of sleep per night.²¹ Workplace consequences, such as reduced productivity and increased errors, cost employers $1,200 to $3,100 per employee every year.²²

You can help mitigate these risks by exploring our Rest and Revive Toolkit for resources that support healthy sleep habits.

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Footnotes:

¹Charlie Waters, “8 Reasons Why Fitness in the Office is Important,” Occupational Health & Safety, February 8, 2023.
²“Benefits of Physical Activity,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, April 24, 2024.
³Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2018.
⁴Dhruv Kazi et al., “Forecasting the Economic Burden of Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke in the United States Through 2050: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association,” American Heart Association Journal, June 4, 2024.
⁵Bureau of Labor Statistics, American Time Use Survey 2023 Results, June 27, 2024.
⁶“Social Connection,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, March 27, 2024.
⁷Tim Dall et al., “Assessing the Economic Impact of Obesity and Overweight on Employers: Identifying Paths Toward Work Force Health and Well-Being,” GlobalData, February 2024.
⁸“Consequences of Obesity,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, July 15, 2022.
⁹Yarden Segal, Sasidhar Gunturu, “Psychological Issues Associated With Obesity,” National Library of Medicine, May 2, 2024.
¹⁰Julie Thompson, “Why You Need to Worry About Employee Burnout,” Business.com, updated December 12, 2024.
¹¹Ryan Pendell, “Employee Wellbeing Starts at Work,” Gallup Workplace, July 20, 2022.
¹²Iseult Morgan, “Employees Want Wellbeing From Their Job, and They’ll Leave to Find It,” Gallup Workplace, August 3, 2021.
¹³“New Mental Health Cost Calculator Shows Why Investing in Mental Health is Good for Business,” National Safety Council, May 13, 2021.
¹⁴ The State of Organizations 2023, McKinsey & Company, 2023.
¹⁵Chloe Donelan, “Why Should Mental Health Be a Priority in the Workplace?,” John Hopkins University, May 17, 2023.
¹⁶“National Surveys Reveal Disconnect Between Employees and Employers Around Mental Health Need,” McKinsey & Company, April 21, 2021.
¹⁷Steven Sokoler, “The Business Case for Mental Health: Investing in Employee Well-Being,” Forbes, July 30, 2024.
¹⁸“2024 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures,” Alzheimer’s Association, accessed February 28, 2025.
https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/facts-figures
¹⁹Nicola M. Payton, et al, “Trajectories of Cognitive Decline and Dementia Development: A 12-year Longitudinal Study,” Alzheimer’s and Dementia, June 17, 2022, p. 857-867.
²⁰Jiaxi Peng et al., “The Relationship Between Sleep Quality and Occupational Well-Being in Employees: The Mediating Role of Occupational Self-Efficacy,” Frontiers in Psychology, January 27, 2023.
²¹”FastStats: Sleep in Adults,” CDC, May 15, 2024.
²²Sara Mosqueda, “How Sleep Loss Impacts Employees and Costs Companies,” Security Management, November 7, 2023.

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