Corporate Exercise Plans Improve Staff Member Wellness
Instituting a health promotion program improves the health of workers, lowers staff member absenteeism and saves the company money, too. Learn more about starting an staff member health promotion program in the office.
Advantages of Health Promotion Programs
• A business investment of $100-$150 per staff member each year to participate [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Five reasons to have a health promotion program
1 The United States spends more dollars on healthcare than any other nation yet we aren’t the world’s healthiest
• Largely sedentary
• Use of tobacco is still popular
• Stress is at epidemic levels (WHO)
• Alcohol continues to take its toll on American Citizens
2 Much of the disease in the United States [...]
Many companys, as part of their efforts to contain rising health care costs, are starting worksite programs variously described as wellness, lifestyle programs, health and productivity management, population health management and, simply, health promotion programs.
The purpose of this article is to consider whether such programs improve health. When so, do they in turn reduce utilization [...]
As organizations today continue to compete in the global economy, cost containment strategies will be increasingly important. Controlling the rising cost of staff member ill health is becoming a priority for corporate leaders.
The emerging corporate culture in the U.S. is one which has an worker population centered in health, safety and wellness.
Developing a corporate [...]
Want some health promotion program ideas and wellness policy ideas to get you started? Or maybe you want to jump start or improve upon your current health promotion program?
The list below provides “best practices’ that can help meet any health promotion program budget! the Health Promotion Program ideas are divided into topic areas.
General Health [...]
Health screenings are important programs to identify chronic illness in their early stages. Once identified, wellness intervention programs can help prevent a illness from progressing.
Working with local hospitals and other organizations, you can obtain information on providing screening and intervention programs that could improve your employees’ health and save your business money in absenteeism, [...]
Health Risk (Assessment|Appraisal}s, are an assessment tool or questionnaire scientifically designed to identify health risks and outline information to assist individuals in making healthful changes that impact their health and prevent chronic disease.
Health Risk (Assessment|Appraisal}s have four standard elements in worksite settings –
• A Questionnaire
• A Computerized Program to Evaluate Health Risk
• Confidential Individual [...]
There are many benefits to considering a part-time or full-time occupational and environmental health nurse (OHN). Occupational health nursing is the specialty practice that provides for and delivers health and safety programs and services to employees, and employee populations.
The practice focuses on promotion and restoration of health, prevention of illness and injury, treatment of [...]
We’re planning corporation health promotion programs to help you feel better and stay healthful. In order to plan programs that best meet your needs and interests we’d like your suggestions!
Please take several minutes to answer some questions about your interests. Your answers will be combined with those of other’s and reviewed to help plan [...]
Program evaluation may be the last step, but it must be planned at the beginning of your efforts! Analysis assists you identify what parts of the program are working well and what parts need improvement.
Then, based on the investigation data, adjustments could be made to fine-tune your health promotion program. Adjusting the program [...]
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