Healthy employees are more productive. Healthy employees are more efficient, productive and skip fewer days due to sickness, physician visits and/or in-patient stays. But you know this already. So how do you go about implementing an effective wellness program. Effective wellness program solutionYou need to have a strategy. Getting your employees to exercise and eat properly is not an easy task especially for those who have neglected healthy habits for a long time. Here are our tips for successful workplace wellness program: - Evaluate employee attitude towards health.
- Create a marketing strategy to "sell" the workplace program to employees.
- Spend money on activities and not on measuring results.
- Don't spend money on expensive equipment. Introduce a walking program.
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Sunday, 13 July 2008 14:17
Health Consultant
Introduction Fatigue may contribute to the human error component of medical errors.1-3 Hospitals function around the clock, which necessitates shift work for many personnel. Physicians, especially those in training, typically work long hours and are often sleep deprived.4 Personnel who work during evenings and at night experience disruptions in circadian rhythms, which may aggravate fatigue.
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Saturday, 28 June 2008 13:30
Health Consultant
Supported by Health Promotion Advocates 1. Our Mission
To promote a healthy lifestyle for all Americans and thereby reduce medical costs and utilization, improve quality of life, and enhance productivity. 2. What is health promotion?
For the purposes of this legislation, health promotion is defined as the art and science of motivating people to enhance their lifestyle to achieve complete health, not just the absence of disease. Complete health involves a balance of physical, mental, and social health. The most effective health promotion programs include a combination of strategies to increase awareness, facilitate behavior change and develop cultures and physical environments that encourage and support healthy lifestyle practices. Health promotion programs focus on practices such as exercising regularly, eating a nutritious diet, maintaining a healthy weight, managing stress, avoiding dangerous substances such as tobacco and illegal drugs, drinking alcohol in moderation or not at all, driving safely, being a wise consumer of health care and a number of other health related practices. Health promotion programs can be provided in clinical, school, workplace, state, federal and community settings.
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Saturday, 28 June 2008 12:33
Health Consultant
Is there a recommended attitude or— better yet—a philosophy behind offering an incentive campaign? That’s a great question and I believe there is. Personally, I believe a wellness program should encourage and reward healthy behavior adherence in busy adult lives in an ongoing fashion. In my mind, a good incentive program should create doable, meaningful programs that really reach out and attract busy workers in small but significant ways. And that, to me, is the success that drives all of these other components of a typical wellness program—we’ve got to find ways to make health programs fit into people’s lives and small activities are a good beginning. As people start making small changes, we can encourage more significant changes. The incentives are there to give them a nudge and some added motivation to take action.
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:51
Paul Mark
A variety of technology companies, health care providers, insurers and consumer groups today endorsed a framework for increasing privacy and consumer control over online personal health records. Developed by Connecting for Health, a public-private collaborative led by the Markle Foundation, the framework identifies technology and policy approaches that help protect personal information and enhance consumer participation in online PHRs, the group said. Many new PHR services – like those offered by Google, Microsoft and WebMD – are not covered under the HIPAA privacy rule. “This collaboration lays out specific practices that all PHRs and related services can use, whether they are covered by federal privacy rules or not, so they can enhance public trust,” said Steve Findlay, a health care analyst for Consumers Union.
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:56
Health Consultant
Although legions of doctors have bristled at the physician rankings that are widely available online, most consumers in fact do not use the rankings when choosing a provider, medical facility or even an insurance carrier, for that matter.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:00 )
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 07:27
Health Consultant
According to an article in the New York Times, research published by the Conference Board and RTI International found that obesity costs U.S. employers an estimated $45 billion annually, but few employers are tackling the problem head on. About 14 percent of chief executives cite obesity as a top healthcare benefits concern according to the same report.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 24 June 2008 08:46 )
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