Building up cultural competence for health

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Building a culture of health at any organization can be challenging, but doing so reaps valuable rewards in curbing health care costs and engaging employees in making healthy decisions. In a recent webinar series sponsored by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, the health director from Dow Chemical and the compensation and benefits manager at Pinellas County, Fla., shared the building blocks for creating a culture of health – and how employers in both the public and private sector can find the reasons and resources needed to make such an effort successful.

 

Kathleen Koster
Freelance Writer

Koster is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and former Employee Benefit News online managing editor.


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