Archive for August, 2009
Employer Wellness : Employee Wellness Program: Conducting Employer Assessment
The first step in creating your wellness/Worksite Wellness Program is to understand your company and how Worksite Wellness Program will fit into the current structure. By researching your organization’s history with similar programs and eliciting feedback from co-workers, you can learn the best solution for your company.
Worksite Health Promotion Program: Research Questions
• Find out if [...]
Employer Wellness : Benefits of Employee Health Promotion Programs*
The costs of medical have been rising more than 10 percent each year for several years. A substantial amount of the money spent in the medical system treats costly illnesses and diseases.
• Approximately 95 percent of the $1.4 trillion that we spend as a nation on health goes to direct health care services, while about [...]
Employer Wellness : What is a Workplace Health Promotion Program?
According to the American Journal of Health Promotion, “Health promotion is the science and art of helping people 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 shift can be facilitated through a combination of efforts to [...]
Employer Wellness : Boost Employer Wellness through Emotional Wellness Techniques
5 Ways to Review and Improve Your workers’ Health
Emotional health is a state of wellness that comes from understanding and acknowledging our emotions and finding appropriate ways to express them. As employees, we often bring emotional problems from our childhood or current family life into the workplace because we haven’t dealt with them effectively outside [...]
Employer Wellness : Workplace Health Promotion Programs Now as Important as Cost and Workforce Issues
25 percent Jump in Employer Interest in Employee Health and Wellness
Job Site wellness for their staff members, companies are discovering, is great for the health of their companies as well. Corporate Health Promotion Programs help to cut the costs associated with poor employee health, which include absenteeism, loss of productivity and poor work quality.
A new [...]
Employer Wellness : Company Wellness: Bottom Line Strategies For Effective Medical Care Reform
It is apparent to virtually every American (especially those of us in business) that healthcare costs are skyrocketing out of control. No one doubts that either the market will solve the issue OR the government will impose one on us. Managed care has failed from either a cost containment or quality of care perspective. Companies [...]
Employer Wellness : Employee Wellness Programs
Research spanning more than a decade has consistently shown Workplace Wellness Programs to be fiscally effective and that every dollar invested on a corporate wellness program can return $2.30 and $10.10 by reducing absenteeism, sick day usage and by lowering insurance costs. Additionally it is noted that there are marked improvements in employee success and [...]
Employer Wellness : Popular Employee Wellness Programs
Some of the top wellness programs currently in use today include:
Health Risk Assessments or HRAs
Health Risk Assessment is a top corporate wellness program currently in use globally. Employers that enable it determine the safety and health issues of employees by the assessment of appropriateness of the facilities and equipment against the needs of the employees.
It [...]
Employer Wellness : Has Wellness Been Hijacked?
Wellness is a great concept. It brings happiness into health and encourages a truly holistic approach to life. Wikipedia defines wellness as a healthy balance of the mind-body and spirit that results in an central feeling of wellness. It sounds like exactly what every one is looking for. But when you begin to talk about [...]
Employer Wellness : Investment in Company Wellness Programs Pays Big Dividends
High rates of employee turnover and the expenditures of sick days are increasingly taking bites into company profits. The high cost of recruitment programs only adds to the challenges that these concerns in total cost the average company. Many businesses are finding the solution to these challenges by increasing job satisfaction, team building, and the [...]