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Health Promotion incorporates many facets of our daily lives. From the amount of sleep to the water we drink, to the food that we eat and the activity that we maintain, our health is dependent upon many factors of our lifestyle.
Working to improve our wellness could be challenging to achieve on our own. That is [...]
Do you find it challenging to stay excited when trying to make changes to your health? Are you aware that changes ought to be made in your daily life but you don’t know where to begin? If so then wellness coaching might just be the solution you have been seeking.
Health Promotion coaching is a service [...]
In today’s fast paced world our busy lives leave little time, energy, or motivation for people to focus on their own needs.
Those that do seek to improve their wellness traditionally turn to friends, family, specialists and published materials for support and information. All too often those support structures fail to make a lasting difference.
This happens [...]
Information to evaluate your wellness program comes from routinely accumulated screening and follow-up data of your wellness program that look at process and outcomes of your program.
The Employee Health Program has available a computerized case-management system which includes queries that allow easy assessment of process and outcome results at any point in time.
Process Analysis
Process evaluation [...]
The keys to a successful wellness program are persistent one-on-one outreach and follow-up counseling to encourage health improvement, adherence to treatment programs, changes in lifestyle behaviors, and to prevent relapse.
Periodic outreach and follow-up procedures provide employees with a safety net which keeps them involved in the wellness program and avoids treatment dropout and relapse.
Counselors ought [...]
The menu approach offers employees a range of choices to support lifestyle changes. It authorizes individuals to select the kind of help that suits their schedules and preferences.
The four basic types of health promotion programs include -
o Classes
o Minigroups
o Guided self help
o Individual counseling
Classes
Courses (8 or more) can be an effective means of providing education [...]
The educational program ought to include approaches to stress awareness/reduction at the environmental level and at the individual level.
Social, physical, and organizational stressors must be explained and methods to ease or elevate stressors must be presented.
At the individual level how changes in attitudes and behaviors help one to cope with stressors; learning techniques to minimize [...]
A nutrition education program should include a nutritional needs assessment, education counseling, and referral as necessary.
Educational sessions and materials should include the following information -
o The relationship of nutrition and chronic conditions
o Improving eating patterns
o Relationship of nutrition and proper weight maintenance
o Exercise
o Stress
o Blood pressure (BP)
o Cholesterol
o Diabetes and other chronic conditions.
o Nutritionally exact [...]
It is recommended that smoking cessation programs subscribe to the Code of Practice for Use of tobacco Cessation Programs.
Tobacco use cessation programs ought to be multi-component with a focus on skills to build positive voluntary behavior modification practices.
Useful techniques include establishing reasons for quitting, understanding the tobacco use habit, various techniques for stopping and remaining [...]
Participatory exercise programs ought to include education on benefits of regular physical activity and risks of a sedentary lifestyle, its impact on cardiovascular health and illnesses, its relationship with weight control and stress management, and aerobic activity options.
Discussion and practice of safe principles of exercise – warm up, cool down, frequency, intensity, duration, flexibility and [...]
