Archive for June, 2010
What is Corporate Wellness?
Corporate wellness is evolving. Early efforts to develop healthy workplaces focused on safety at the worksite and injury prevention for employees. More recently, programs are designed to assist employees to pick healthier behaviours like being more physically active or quitting tobacco use. Campaigns to elevate awareness, educational sessions to elevate knowledge, opportunities to learn new [...]
Advantages of Wellness Programs.
The costs of healthcare have been rising more than 10% yearly for several years. A substantial amount of the money spent in the healthcare system treats costly diseases and diseases. • Approximately 95% of the $1.4 trillion that we spend as a nation on health goes to direct medical services, while about 5% is allocated [...]
Creating a Wellness Program.
Ideally, you’ll create an overall plan for a wellness program before starting to plan specific wellness programs. for example, you can start by getting the following elements in place – • support from upper management • a wellness committee or team • information about the wellness needs and interests of employees • a budget • [...]
What’s a Wellness Program?
According to the American Journal of Wellness, “Wellness is the science and art of assisting individuals change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health. Optimal health is defined as a balance of physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual health. Lifestyle change could be facilitated through a combination of efforts to enhance awareness, [...]
Creating and Running Your Wellness Program.
Many organizations recognize the need for a robust strategy to help their staff members be the best they can be. They also know that successful and sustainable wellness programs are much more than a few “lunch and learn” programs. Your wellness program ought to include a wide range of key elements, including – • A [...]
Increase Corporate Wellness through Emotional Health Techniques.
5 Ways to Assess and Improve Your Employees’ Health Emotional health is a state of wellness that comes from understanding and acknowledging our emotions and locating appropriate ways to express them. As workers, we often bring emotional problems from our childhood or current family life into the workplace because we have not dealt with them [...]
Does Your Business Support Physical Activity?
How does physical activity fit into a full-time employee’s busy schedule? Often, it doesn’t. One possible solution to this challenge is to make exercise a part of the work day. Clearly, being active at work is advantageous for workers. But corporations also benefit from having fit, energetic and healthful workers who are more productive. The [...]
Wellness Programs Now as Important as Cost and Workforce Issues.
25 percent Jump in Business Interest in Staff Member Wellness Corporate wellness for their staff members, businesss are discovering, is good for the health of their businesses as well. Wellness programs help to cut the costs associated with poor staff member health, which include absenteeism, loss of productivity and poor work quality. A recent Hewitt [...]
Physical Activity for Busy People .
We all know that exercise is an important part of health and wellness. But sometimes it’s hard to find time for exercise. Lack of time is the number one barrier that people say prevents them from participating in exercise on a regular basis. The good news is that even short sessions of exercise help your [...]
Corporate Wellness and Effective Health Care Reform.
It’s clear to virtually every American (particularly those of us in business) that health care costs are skyrocketing out of control. No one doubts that either the market will solve the problem OR the government will impose one on us. Managed care has failed from either a cost containment or quality of care perspective. Companies [...]