Workplace Health Promotion Program Data
What is Workplace Health Promotion Program data?
Workplace Health Promotion Program data is information that is collected about your Workplace Health Promotion Program. All Workplace Health Promotion Programs should include data as an integral part of the Workplace Health Promotion Program plan.
Why should you care about Workplace Health Promotion Program data?
Data tells the Wellness story. Data is the tangible evidence of a Wellness Program’s impact.
Building data into Workplace Health Promotion Programs
Why bother with Workplace Health Promotion Program Data?
You need Workplace Health Promotion Program data to:
• Evaluate whether or not your Workplace Health Promotion Program is working.
• Answer the ‘so what?’ about the need for a Workplace Health Promotion Program.
• Provide information to Upper Management about the impact of the Workplace Health Promotion Program.
• Write a budget justification so you can secure Workplace Health Promotion Program resources.
• Use Workplace Health Promotion Program resources efficiently and market your Workplace Health Promotion Program more effectively.
Where to start collecting Workplace Health Promotion Program data:
• MAKE A PLAN to collect the data: decide what, when, and how information will be collected.
• Determine what information is ALREADY BEING COLLECTED.
o By way of example: use dairy sales information in the dining center to measure the impact of a milk marketing/dairy month campaign.
• Begin collecting JUST A FEW small pieces of information. Be innovative!
o By way of example: BMI, APFT scores (before & after), tobacco quit rates
IT’S NEVER TO LATE TO START collecting Workplace Health Promotion Program data.
Innovative Workplace Health Promotion Program data strategies
• Use local college/graduate students to help collect, input, and analyze Workplace Health Promotion Program information.
• If your employer has an internship program, get to know the Internship Director. Take advantage of intern resources – including having the Director and/or interns implement the data collection plan for your Workplace Health Promotion Program.
• Use information to let upper management know about the Workplace Health Promotion Programs affect on the employees.
Present this information at their monthly/quarterly meetings.
• Use innovative follow-up strategies to get information. Phone calls can be effective, but also consider email, mailed surveys with return postage provided, and going to the units in person to collect the information.
• Make data collection ‘fun’ for Workplace Health Promotion Program members.
o By way of example: use a team approach – the team with the ‘best’ overall results gets some sort of award or recognition.
• ALWAYS relate the impact of your Workplace Health Promotion Program to readiness.
