Archive for the ‘Health and Wellness Program’ Category
Stress Management
The educational program should include approaches to stress awareness/reduction at the environmental level and at the individual level.
Social, physical, and business stressors should be explained and methods to ease or elevate stressors should be presented. At the individual level how changes in attitudes and behaviors help one to cope with stressors; learning techniques to minimize [...]
Nutrition Education
A diet education program should include a nutritional needs assessment, education counseling, and referral as crucial.
Educational sessions and materials should include the following information:
• The relationship of diet and chronic diseases
• Improving eating patterns
• Relationship of diet and proper weight maintenance
• Exercise
• Stress
• Blood Pressure (BP)
• Cholesterol
• Diabetes and other chronic diseases.
• Nutritionally accurate information [...]
Smoking Cessation
It is recommended that tobacco cessation programs subscribe to the Code Of Practice for Smoking Cessation Programs.
Smoking cessation programs should be multi-component with a focus on skills to build positive voluntary behavior change practices. Useful techniques include implementing reasons for quitting, understanding the smoking habit, various techniques for stopping and remaining a non-smoker, overcoming the [...]
Exercise Programs
Participatory exercise programs should include education on benefits of regular exercise and risks of a sedentary lifestyle, its effect on cardiovascular health and diseases, its relationship with weight control and stress management, and aerobic exercise options. Discussion and practice of safe principles of exercise – warm up, cool down, frequency, intensity, duration, flexibility and strength [...]
Weight Control
Program provided is consistent with scientific and medical recommendations for weight loss, reflects a multi-disciplinary approach which offers four components: behavioral, exercise, diet, and maintenance, and is in accordance with the document Guidance For Treatment Of Adult Obesity. It includes:
• Screening to verify that the colleague has no medical or psychological conditions which would make [...]
Cholesterol Measurement and Education
A program is required to support appropriate interpretation of cholesterol evaluation results, including a caution that a single measurement neither excludes nor establishes a diagnosis of their blood cholesterol.
Follow national ground rules:
Total Cholesterol
Desirable cholesterol < 200 mg/dl
Borderline cholesterol 200 – 239 mg/dl
High cholesterol > 240 mg/dl
HDL
Desirable HDL > 35 mg/dl
Low HDL < 35 [...]
Blood Pressure (BP) Measurement and Education
Appropriate medical or allied health professional trained in measurement of Blood Pressure (BP), referral protocols, and delivering educational messages to colleague delivering Blood Pressure (BP) programs. These programs are required to follow national ground rules.
• National ground rules for Blood Pressure (BP) protocols:
o Calibration of Blood Pressure (BP) calculating equipment
be done at least each year.
o [...]
Employee Health Screening Programs
Health risk evaluation programs should be carried out on a one-on-one basis by trained medical professionals. Health risk measures should include the following:
• Blood Pressure (BP) measurements – at least two Blood Pressure (BP) measurements taken during the evaluation episode, using a mercury sphygmomanometers or regularly calibrated aneroids.
• Blood Pressure (BP) treatment status – ascertain [...]
Effective Programming/General Recommendations
Program directors or providers should have a background in wellness programming and a professional health-related degree or certification. They should have expertise in content areas, planning, promotion, administration, evaluation, and ability to grow a program and tailor the program to the workplace.
Program providers should have a quality assurance program for evaluating the performance of service [...]
Incentives
Incentives can be used to expand participation rates, help with completion or attendance at programs, and to help people shift or adhere to healthy lifestyles. The purpose of the incentive is to encourage employees to adopt positive behaviors or maintain an existing positive behavior. Everyone who achieves a objective or maintains a behavior should receive [...]
