Archive for November, 2008
Keys to Effective Workplace Health Promotion Programs
Collaboration and Effective Workplace Health Promotion Programs
Why should you collaborate?
Active, ongoing partnerships and cooperative efforts multiply Workplace Health Promotion Program resources in order to better serve Employees and their families.
How can you build collaboration into a Workplace Health Promotion Program?
Get Ready…
• Brainstorm a list of every potential Wellness partner you can think of. Be [...]
Workplace Health Promotion Programs – The Good and The Bad
Workplace Health Promotion Programs at the corporate level are beneficial, right? Wellness statistics clearly show that such Workplace Health Promotion Programs are not only cost-effective to the organization but can assist the employee in developing a healthier lifestyle. With the rising cost of health care, Workplace Health Promotion Programs simply make sense. So where does [...]
Workplace Health Promotion Program ROI
For well over a decade, research has been showing the effectiveness of Workplace Health Promotion Programs. For every dollar spent on Workplace Health Promotion Programs, the returns have been cost savings of between $2.30 and $10.10 in the areas of decreased absenteeism, fewer sick days, reduced WSIB/WCB claims, lowered health and insurance costs, and improvements [...]
Gold’s Gym Employee Wellness
Workers breathe life and value into your employer. Within the modern worksite there are increasing instances of stress, anxiety, obesity, depression, and heart disease. The modern worksite has become increasingly physical fitness-free.
Technological advances have lessened the need to “walk” at work. Moving a mouse has the same level of physical exertion as pressing the buttons [...]
Workplace Health Promotion Programs: employer Flu Shots
Flu Shot Facts & Myths
Myth: The flu isn’t a serious disease.
Fact: Influenza (flu) is a serious disease of the nose, throat, and lungs, and it can lead to pneumonia. Each year about 200,000 employees in the U.S. are hospitalized and about 36,000 employees die because of the flu. Most who die are 65 years and [...]
Advantages of Workplace Health Promotion Programs
Advantages of Workplace Health Promotion Programs: Easy to Find
Employer’s are learning that Workplace Health Promotion Programs is an effective way to increase productivity, improve employee health, reduce medical costs and reduce absenteeism.
A report published in 2003 by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) highlighted how important it is for employers to [...]
Workplace Health Promotion Programs: Future Directions, Developments and Challenges
Technological and demographic transformations are changing the nature of work in our society. As these changes occur the broad-based model of Workplace Health Promotion Programs described above will evolve and continue to develop. If current trends continue, the workers of tomorrow will be older, more racially and ethically diverse, increasingly female, and will frequently be [...]
Workplace Health Promotion Programs: Integration of employer and Community Resources
Worksites do not exist in a vacuum. They are part and parcel of the community in which they are located. Successful corporate administrators are cognizant of the need for positive community relations and should do what is necessary to promote good will. What better way to bridge relationships than by utilizing existing community Workplace Health [...]