Enhancing the Quality of Life...Where We Work and Where We Live

The quality of life and the vibrancy of the communities in which we work and live are of vital importance — both for our Pfizer colleagues who live and work in these areas and for the other residents whose neighborhoods we share. In order to ensure the effectiveness of our efforts to serve our communities, Pfizer’s creates programs and partnerships that are targeted and localized. At our sites around the world, Pfizer colleagues develop unique local programs based on their knowledge of their surrounding communities and build successful partnerships with local civic, community and cultural organizations.

Corporate Citizenship At Work: Representative Pfizer Community Health Programs

Amigos En Salud^® (Friends in Health)

Goal: To provide culturally relevant education, outreach, access, and self-management tools to help Latino patients manage diabetes, diabetes-related complications and comorbid depression through reducing modifiable risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, physical inactivity, and poor nutrition.

Targeted Area: Latino communities with high rates of these conditions. The program was evaluated in Los Angeles, California, Hartford, Connecticut, and Laredo, Texas.

Pfizer’s Commitment: To support community-based peer health educators specifically trained in behavior change strategies and in disease states.

Successes: Program participants showed increased knowledge of their conditions as well as an increased desire and ability to achieve their health goals and behavior changes, resulting in improved blood sugar levels, lowered cholesterol, triglycerides, and body mass index.

Program Website: www.amigosensalud.com

Balance It Out^®

Goal: The program is designed to improve the lives of children and their families through their communities and schools by addressing diet, a sedentary lifestyle, and risk factors for developing chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.

Targeted Area: The program is targeted to communities wishing to address childhood health issues in a community and school based program, The program was implemented in 3 school districts in Arkansas - Dollarway (Pine Bluff), Harrison, and Paragould.

Pfizer’s Commitment: To support community-based peer health educators specifically trained in behavior change strategies and in disease states as well as communities wishing to embrace healthier food choices and a more active lifestyle.

Successes: Program participants showed increased engagement with community events and knowledge of healthier lifestyle changes.