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About Us
Initially launched in 2002, Health Matters is a worksite wellness program that encourages employees to make positive health changes by offering regular activities related to healthy eating and physical activity and by creating an environment supportive of these changes. Originally offered to the Division of Public Health, the program is now available to all State employees located at 2 Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia. The expanded program now provides smoking cessation classes and a breastfeeding room for nursing mothers.
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Because of Health Matters, the workplace environment at 2 Peachtree now supports healthy lifestyles.
- Catchy slogans placed throughout the building encourage employees to take the stairs
- Promotions are prominently displayed for the fresh produce market in the lobby of the building.
- A lactation room exists to support breastfeeding after mothers return to work
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About Our Participants
- 44% of participants engage in physical activity 30 minutes or more 5 days or a week and logged an average of 7,561 steps per day
- 31% of participants consume 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetables per day
Information collected from January to April 2006 as part of the Health Matters Intervention (n=78)
Coming soon….
With sustained funding, Health Matters will continue to encourage management to formally adopt wellness policies that support healthy eating, physical activity, breastfeeding and smoking cessation; implement further environmental changes in the building; and ultimately expand to other worksites throughout Georgia.
Stay tuned for exciting new changes.
