The Health Promotion Committee should set out a plan for the entire year that outlines accomplishing objectives and objectives, in addition to provides details for marketing and investigating the program.
The plan is the detailed map of what types of programs will be offered, when and where they will be scheduled, how they will be marketed and examined, and what the budget is.
It’s important to plan your wellness activities based on your objectives and objectives, in addition to the budget since different strategies will yield different outcomes. For example, when your objective is to raise awareness on a topic, then distributing brochures or scheduling a one-time education session may be appropriate.
Nevertheless, when your goal is to change behavior, then different strategies may be necessary, such as ongoing weekly sessions and support groups. Click here to link to Program Design Options for more ideas.
Health Promotion Program Marketing
This is the time to plan your advertising and marketing strategies! How can you market the health promotion program and ongoing activities? No matter how you decide to, market often, keep it fresh, and remind staff members again and again!
Consider having an overall kickoff activity to let everyone know about the health promotion program. Senior Management ought to provide the introduction or invitation so that all employees are aware of their support and leadership in the program.
Possible marketing and advertising methods –
• Sending email messages, including reminders
• Posting flyers,
• Displaying bulletin board postings,
• Writing articles,
• Sending letters or
• Sending special invitations.
Other Health Promotion Program Considerations –
• Is the program promoted to all employees or to a specific target audience?
• Do you’ve a program champion (someone who is connected with different groups in the organization, and well respected) who can help in your promotion efforts?
• When your marketing efforts do not seem to be working, do you’ve a way to revisit and adjust your strategy?
• How’ll you determine success and evaluate your program? and how will you collect the information needed to evaluate your program?
Topics most often included in Health Promotion Programs –
• Nutrition
• Physical Activity/Exercise
• Tobacco Use Cessation
• Bone Health
• Heart Health
• Healthy Back
• Stress Reduction
• Chronic Disease Awareness and Prevention
• Self-care; Wise Health Care Consumer
• Screening Services (Body Mass Index (BMI), blood pressure, bone density, cholesterol, glucose, posture, vision, and other…)
• Ergonomic Assessments
• Wellness Fairs
• Kids/family Events
• Others topics that staff members have interest in
The topics and kind of Health Promotion Program planned depend on the needs and interest, overall goal and resources available.
Program Design Choices include awareness programs like handouts and/or education sessions, behavior change or modification programs like tobacco use cessation and weight loss classes, and environmental or organizational support like no tobacco use policies or healthful selections in vending machines.
The programs planned also depend on the demographics of your workforce. If you’ve a young, healthful workforce, you may want to focus the wellness attention on keeping workers healthful and not need to screen for disease.
Instead you could want to focus on healthful lifestyle behavior like exercise and good nutrition to prevent the start of illness. Click here for more information on strategies for keeping staff members well, identifying illness early, or returning staff members to work who already have a chronic illness.
It is also important to consider, and plan how you will evaluate the success of your health promotion program. The system needs to be established for tracking certain data and recording events depending on the program objectives and desired outcomes.
Step 7 discusses program examination in more detail. and Step 6 will launch your program!
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