Shanghai to Host 2014 Global Healthy Workplace Awards and Summit

November 12, 2013
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Shanghai to Host 2014 Global Healthy Workplace Awards and Summit

Shanghai to Host 2014 Global Healthy Workplace Awards and Summit

Shanghai Awards Entries Now Open!

It’s that time of the year again and you heard it first here at i-genius! Good Health is Good Business, and we’re back with our international partners GKEN and International Health Consulting. This time Shanghai will play host the second Global Healthy Workplace Awards and Summit April 9-10, 2014, as the search continues for the programs making the biggest impact on the health and well-being of the world’s workforce. A meeting venue in Shanghai will be announced in the next few weeks!

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Building on the success of the inaugural Awards and Summit held in London, the Shanghai Summit will expand the audience and scope of awards. This is the only truly global awards program dedicated solely to the recognition of practices and programs in the global workplace, and the first to use the World Health Organization (WHO) Healthy Workplace guidelines. Workplace health program submissions from around the world will be accepted beginning November 12th, 2013, and will be reviewed by an international panel of judges representing five continents with expertise in health promotion, health policy, occupational health and associated disciplines.

“The workplace health conversation is being heard around the world, from London to Brazil and China. Communities and workplaces in every corner of the globe are faced with increased health risks and rising health care costs. Cigna is once again supporting the Global Healthy Workplace Awards and Summit convening employers and other experts to share the programs that are most effective in improving health and well-being and in making workplaces more productive and competitive,” said Dave Guilmette, president of Cigna’s Global Employer Segment.

Cigna and the Cigna Foundation are sponsors of the Global Healthy Workplace Awards and Summit, hosted by the Global Knowledge Exchange Network (GKEN), International Health Consulting and i-genius, the world community of social entrepreneurs.

Following the desire of participants at the Spring 2013 London Awards and Summit wanting to continue workplace health discussions at the local level, the first- of- its kind regional summit was staged in September 2013 in Latin America, co-hosted by Associação Brasileira de Qualidade de Vida (ABQV), the International Institute for Health Promotion (IAWHP) and the Global Healthy Workplace Awards and supported by Pfizer. The Summit in São Paulo, Brazil, brought together global experts and regional specialists in occupational health and wellness to discuss strategies and tactics and identify best practices.

Professor Rene Mendes, Federal University of Minas Gerais, opened the Brazil Summit by explaining the rapidly increasing role of stress in the workplace, a trend expected to rise as Latin America expands its service sector employment opportunities. Julietta Rodriguez Guzman, Pan American Health Organisation, led a “how to” session on developing a healthy workplace and emphasised that the voice of employees needs to be paramount. The Summit also included case studies from Argentina, Chile and Uruguay as well as one from Brazil-based Telefónica, a London 2013 Global Healthy Workplace award finalist.

The next regional event is being developed targeting Dubai in 2014. “As global and regional meetings take place, it’s our purpose to create a cross cultural movement in improving global workplace health – not simply a series of meetings but an opportunity for real change in health to take hold around the world,” said Jon Comola, Founder of Global Knowledge Exchange Network (GKEN.org).

The importance of workplace health programs has evolved over the past half century and today is recognized as essential to improving the health and well-being of workers and communities around the world while raising productivity and reducing cost to employers.

+ Sponsored by Cigna and the Cigna Foundation
+ Workplace health conversation heard around the world
+ Awards based on WHO Guidelines
+ Applications Accepted Beginning 12th November 2013 & Closing 24th January 2014
+ Good health is good business

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