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EXPAND YOUR KNOWLEDGE through CDC’s quarterly publication, Business Pulse. Produced by the CDC Foundation, Business Pulse focuses on a different topic each quarter.

Each issue of Business Pulse focuses on innovative science-based employer strategies for emerging worker safety and health issues while also addressing well-recognized workplace hazards and exposures.

Recently Business Pulse focused on Workplace Safety and Health. U.S. employers face complex challenges ranging from the $263 billion economic burden of worker injuries and illnesses to a rapidly changing workforce and the costly consequences of work-related stress and chronic disease management.

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Building Healthy Communities through Business, Culture and Policy.

The American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) is sponsoring a one-day symposium exploring societal influences on community health and real-world solutions to lifestyle-related diseases called Building Healthy Communities through Business, Culture and Policy.

This unique symposium will take place in conjunction with ACPM’s Annual Meeting, Preventive Medicine 2016 on February 23, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency in Crystal City, Virginia. The event will bring together community leaders, employers, government agencies, policy makers, health systems, insurers, pharmaceutical and other healthcare organizations, all committed to improving health and wellbeing in communities nationwide. Find out more.

Diabetes at Work: What’s depression got to do with it?

Date: Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 12PM EST/11AM CST/10 AM MST/ 9 AM PST.

The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) is sponsoring the following webinar, Diabetes at Work: What’s depression got to do with it? This presentation will describe the relationship between diabetes and depression, how these two chronic illnesses can impact an employee, and the role that employers and the occupational and environmental health nurse can play in assisting employees who are experiencing both conditions.

Find out more here.

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Answers to diabetes in the workplace questions

Question: How can we help our employees start the New Year off with healthy habits that improve diabetes and prediabetes management?

Answer: The National Diabetes Education Program’s DiabetesHealthSense provides easy access to resources to help your employees live well and meet their health goals—whether they have diabetes or are at risk for the disease.

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