Archive for September, 2008
The Most Popular Worker Wellness Programs
Who needs wellness programs? If you work in an office or a jobsite or are a member of an organization who spends a considerable amount of time at work, you will definitely benefit from a well-designed corporate wellness program. Employees spend a minimum of about 200 hours a month at work – a considerable amount [...]
What Are Employee Wellness Programs?
In the contemporary workplace human resources are highly valued. Employers understand, employees make or break the success of a company and therefore seek to ensure employees are able to maintain a consistent level of productivity. The health and well-being of employees is important to the modern employer. Wellness [...]
Types of Wellness and Fitness Programs
As the broader conceptions of health and wellness have evolved, so too have the typologies of interventions offered by organizations. An early typology offered by several researchers proposed three levels of health programs:
Level I: Awareness programs, including newsletters, health fairs, screening sessions, education classes, and other activities that raise individual awareness of the consequences of [...]
Meditation and Wellness Programs
Greetings friends.
I often include meditation in wellness programs and people ask me why? Well quite simply put, it is a much under rated and very important part of every person. Daily meditation has far reaching benefits that will assist most any type of healing modality and approach and in many cases; meditation on its own [...]
Wellness and Fitness Programs
Wellness and fitness programs typically focus on the promotion of positive health and/or the prevention and resolution of health risks. Inherent in these themes are the perspectives of health as the presence of positive states or health as the absence of illness. Both psychology and medicine have historically focused primarily on preventing health risks and [...]
Wellness Incentive Programs
When an employee is sick or injured, many times it has a direct affect on an employer’s cost of health care, disability, worker’s compensation, increased absenteeism, lower productivity, reduced safety and morale.The object of an employee incentive wellness program is to improve the health of a company’s workers and to improve its productivity. This type [...]
Wellness Programs, Health and Wellness and Wellness Tips
Thousands of men and women all over the world have reduced their chance of getting stress-related diseases through wellness programs and general health and wellness. Corporations in the Western world have been recently implementing voluntary wellness programs in order to create healthier happier employees. This may mean providing facilities where employees can practice their fitness [...]