Archive for the ‘Wellness Programs’ Category
Wellness Programs : Health Risk Appraisals (HRAs).
Health Risk Assessments (HRAs), are an assessment tool or questionnaire scientifically designed to identify health risks and outline information to assist individuals in making healthful changes that impact their health and prevent chronic disease.
Health Risk Assessments (HRAs) have four standard elements in workplace establishings –
• A Questionnaire
• A Computerized Program to Evaluate Health Risk
• [...]
Wellness Programs : Measuring Health Promotion Program Results.
Information to evaluate your health promotion program comes from routinely gathered screening and follow-up data of your health promotion program that look at process and outcomes of your program.
The Employee Medical Program has available a computerized case-management system which includes queries that allow easy assessment of process and outcome results at any point in time.
Process [...]
Wellness Programs : Advantages of an Onsite Health Promotion Specialist.
There are numerous benefits to considering a part-time or full-time occupational and environmental health nurse (OHN). Occupational health nursing is the specialty practice that provides for and delivers safety and health programs and services to staff, and worker populations.
The practice focuses on promotion and restoration of health, avoidance of illness and injury, treatment of [...]
Wellness Programs : Health Promotion Program Follow-Up.
The keys to a successful wellness program are persistent one-on-one outreach and follow-up counseling to encourage health improvement, adherence to treatment programs, changes in lifestyle behaviors, and to prevent relapse.
Periodic outreach and follow-up procedures provide workers with a safety net which keeps them involved in the wellness program and prevents treatment dropout and relapse.
Counselors [...]
Wellness Programs : Employee Wellness Program Interest Survey.
We’re planning company health promotion programs to help you feel better and stay healthy. In order to plan health promotion programs that best meet your needs and interests we’d like your suggestions!
Please take a few minutes to answer some questions about your interests. Your answers will be combined with those of other’s and reviewed [...]
Wellness Programs : Wellness Program – Options Matter.
The menu approach offers workforce a range of options to support lifestyle changes. It authorizes individuals to choose the type of help that suits their schedules and preferences.
The four basic kinds of health promotion programs include –
• Courses
• Minigroups
• Guided self help
• Individual counseling
Classes
Classes (8 or more) can be an [...]
Wellness Programs : Wellness Program Investigation.
Program analysis could be the last step, but it must be planned at the beginning of your efforts! Analysis assists you identify what parts of the wellness program are working well and what parts need improvement.
Then, based on the analysis data, adjustments could be made to fine-tune your wellness program. Adjusting the wellness [...]
Wellness Programs : Health Promotion Programs and Stress Management.
The educational program should include approaches to stress awareness/reduction at the environmental level and at the individual level.
Social, physical, and organizational stressors must be explained and methods to ease or elevate stressors must be presented.
At the individual level how changes in attitudes and behaviors help one to cope with stressors; learning techniques to minimize [...]
Wellness Programs : Health Promotion Program Implementation .
Armed with data, Wellness Program topic preferences, goals, and goals – and a Wellness Committee rearing to get things done – it’s now time to decide how best to take action. This website provides tools to help you!
You can read about the different types of wellness programs offered by other companies to get an [...]
Wellness Programs : Health Promotion Programs and Nutrition Education.
A nutrition education program should include a nutritional needs assessment, education counseling, and referral as necessary.
Educational sessions and materials ought to include the following information –
• The relationship of nutrition and chronic diseases
• Improving eating patterns
• Relationship of nutrition and proper weight maintenance
• Exercise
• Stress
• Blood pressure
• Cholesterol [...]