Archive for the ‘Health and Wellness Program’ Category
Program Structure
When selecting a program from a vendor you should ask the following questions:
• How many worksites have done the program?
• What types of employee population was the program provided?
• What educational materials are used?
• Will the program meet the needs of employees?
• What are the techniques used to help alter behaviors?
• Does the program help [...]
Planning
An annual plan for the major wellness programs and activities is a useful management tool. This is an excellent Employee Wellness Committee task. Often an exercise and wellness theme per month is provided to employees.
Some corporations choose to follow a National Health Observances calendar which offers advantages. The materials developed by these various national health [...]
Health Screening
The backbone of wellness programming at the worksite is health evaluation. It is the first major exercise a business should do when first starting a wellness program. Health evaluation is frequently used in conjunction with the administration of a Health Risk Appraisal (HRA).
The most effective way to screen is to utilize a health professional trained [...]
Goals and Objectives
Goals are broad-based statements about what the program is expected to do. The objective of the wellness program is to enhance the health of the individual and the business. Goals like mission statements support direction in a program.
Objectives are specific and provide a means of measurement of the program to determine performance. There are two [...]
Company Culture
Effective wellness programs recognize the effect of building a supportive cultural environment. The workplace culture includes shared values/heartfelt beliefs about what is significant. It includes social standards of expected and accepted behavior called “cultural norms.”
It includes peer reinforcement from family, friends, and co-employees. This reinforcement can help one adopt healthy lifestyles. Tools are available to [...]
Work Environment
Effective wellness programs attempt to set up healthy workplace climates. A healthy workplace climate is one which encourages teamwork, cooperation, and empowerment of the individual.
People have a sense of community, a shared vision, and a positive outlook. Policies promote and support wellness efforts within the workplace.
• Effective programs identify ways that business policies and business [...]
Company Wellness: Bottom Line Strategies For Effective Health Care Reform
It is obvious to virtually every American (especially those of us in business) that health care expenditures are skyrocketing out of control. No one doubts that either the market will solve the concern OR the government will impose one on us. Managed care has failed from either a cost containment or quality of care perspective. [...]
Has Wellness Been Hijacked?
Wellness is a great concept. It brings happiness into health and encourages a truly holistic approach to life. Wikipedia defines wellness as a healthy balance of the mind-body and spirit that results in an overall feeling of wellness. It sounds like exactly what every one is looking for. But when you begin to talk about [...]
Investment in Employee Wellness Pays Big Dividends
High rates of employee turnover and the expenditures of sick days are increasingly taking bites into business profits. The high cost of recruitment programs only adds to the challenges that these concerns in total cost the average business. Many corporations are finding the solution to these challenges by increasing job satisfaction, team building, and the [...]
Company Wellness Becomes CEO Delimma – How to Reduce Workplace Health Expenditures
The Partnership for Prevention was formed to encourage Fortune 1000 corporations to consider making workforce health a CEO concern and adopt strategies to promote prevention and wellness. Following several years of double-digit rate increases for medical insurance, corporations are realizing that one of the best ways to slow the cost increases is to have employees [...]
