Worksite Wellness Programs: Focus on Nutrition Programs
Benefits of Nutrition Programs
Nutrition directly impacts nearly every aspect of physical and mental health. A healthy diet can help protect against such conditions as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, stroke, certain cancers and depression. Obesity, which is among the most common conditions linked to diet, affects a record number of Americans.
The American Journal of Health [...]
Worksite Wellness Programs: Focus on Exercise Initiatives
Benefits of Exercise Initiatives
Exercise reduces weight, lowers risks of heart attack and stroke, helps to control blood pressure and diabetes, and improves mood. Studies increasingly show that exercise may also help reduce the occurrence of certain types of cancer. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently documented another major advantage: exercise [...]
The Case for Worksite Wellness Programs
Wellness programming means different things to different businesses. Effective wellness initiatives can be as simple as bringing bushel baskets of fresh fruit into break rooms to encourage better eating. They can be as extensive as building fitness facilities onsite or paying for obesity treatments.
A driving factor behind the push toward wellness spans businesses of all [...]
Worksite Wellness Programs: Stress Management
Stress continues to drive employees’ work-related health concerns, which is probably why most respondents (78%) in a recent survey claim they would take part in a Worksite Wellness Program to help their overall health and wellness.
In a recent study commissioned by the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc. (AAOHN), 500 full-time employees nationwide [...]
Bottom Line Up Front Worksite Wellness Programs
Keeping the bottom line up front Bottom Line Up Front in Worksite Wellness Program will help you get and sustain Senior Management support. A Bottom Line Up Front approach will also help you more realistically measure the impact of your Worksite Wellness Program.
The bottom line in Worksite Wellness Programs answer two key questions:
• How will [...]
Worksite Wellness Programs – The Good and The Bad
Worksite Wellness Programs at the corporate level are beneficial, right? Wellness statistics clearly show that such Worksite Wellness Programs are not only cost-effective to the organization but can assist the staff member in developing a healthier lifestyle. With the rising cost of health care, Worksite Wellness Programs simply make sense. So where does the problem [...]
Worksite Wellness Programs: organization 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 individuals in the U.S. are hospitalized and about 36,000 individuals die because of the flu. Most who die are 65 years and [...]
Benefits of Worksite Wellness Programs
Benefits of Worksite Wellness Programs: Easy to Find
Employer’s are learning that Worksite Wellness Programs is an effective way to increase productivity, improve staff member health, decrease health care costs and reduce rates of absence.
A report published in 2003 by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) highlighted how important it is for [...]
Worksite Wellness Programs: Future Developments, Directions and Challenges
Technological and demographic transformations are changing the nature of work in our society. As these changes occur the broad-based model of Worksite Wellness 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 located [...]
Worksite Wellness Programs: Integration of organization 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 Worksite Wellness [...]