Archive for October, 2008
Workplace Health Promotion Programs: Health Related employer Policies and Procedures
At times Workplace Health Promotion Programs have been instituted as public relations vehicles intended to enhance the corporate image with little concern for improvements in employee health. Companies who are truly committed to enhancing employee health and wellness, are corporations who have worked to include Workplace Health Promotion Programs into the employer’s mission statement. With [...]
Workplace Health Promotion Programs: Safe and Healthy Work Environment
The environmental conditions of the worksite can be divided into both physical and psychosocial domains, both of which influence the culture and climate of a worksite. The cultural norms of a worksite have been identified as powerful determinants of worker health and behavior (Baum, 1995). Ultimately, workers benefit most from a healthy, supportive; eustressful worksite [...]
Workplace Health Promotion Programs: Counseling & Employee Assistance Programs
An employee’s psychological health can never be neglected in a broad-based model of Workplace Health Promotion Programs. Originating out of a need for alcohol abuse interventions in the worksite, today’s employee assistance programs (EAP) encompass assessment and counseling for substance abuse and dependency, stress related disorders, family conflicts and other personal issues.
Evidence of the need [...]
Workplace Health Promotion Programs: employee Health Services and employee Benefits
Small and large corporations carry a significant proportion of the provision of health care for families in this country by providing medical insurance for their employees. With the escalating increase in medical cost many corporations are attempting to slow the increase of medical insurance premiums by providing innovative cost control initiatives. Greater emphasis is being [...]
Workplace Health Promotion Programs: physical fitness and nutrition Programs
physical fitness and nutrition initiatives have demonstrated effectiveness in delaying the onset of employee morbidity while enhancing self esteem, stress management and general feelings of well being. Although many physical fitness and nutrition initiatives are instructional in nature, they should go beyond educational initiatives by providing enabling supports for the adoption of healthy behaviors.
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Workplace Health Promotion Programs: Health Education
Health education is easily integrated into all the areas of comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion Programs and it is unlikely that any of the areas could survive without an educational component. It is a key element of every primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention program and a way of promoting wellness and optimal health. A broad-based health [...]
Components of a Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion Program
As the field of Workplace Health Promotion Programs continues to evolve, the need to define succinctly the components of this broad-based approach increases. In 1987 Allensworth and Kolbe (1987) expanded the prevailing definition of broad-based school health to include the domains of Health Instruction, Healthy Environment, Health Services, Physical Education, Counseling and Psychological Services, School [...]
What Are Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion Programs?
As the field of Workplace Health Promotion Programs continues to evolve, so will the need to define and articulate the dimensions of a broad-based model of Workplace Health Promotion Programs. A representative model includes the following Workplace Health Promotion Program components; health education initiatives, employee health services and benefits, physical fitness and nutrition initiatives, Workplace [...]
Walking Workplace Health Promotion Programs
Walking Workplace Health Promotion Programs are among of the most popular Workplace Health Promotion Programs. They set the bar for entry fairly low – most anyone can walk around the block or their building – and walking Workplace Health Promotion Programs also provides workers with a good way to break up the afternoon doldrums and [...]
Workplace Health Promotion Program Statistics
Workplace Health Promotion Program Statistics tell a clear story – Workplace Health Promotion Program Programs are effective , and they save businesses money.
You should take note of these interesting Workplace Health Promotion Program Statistics:
Some 25 percent of United States businesses were running Workplace Health Promotion Programs in 1996.
Workplace Health Promotion Program Statistics depict [...]