What’s A Robust Wellness Program?   

Robust health promotion programs involve all employees, deal with all major health risks, offers choices, and target both the employees and the workplace environment; provide periodic examination of its results.

Extensive wellness programs emphasize follow-up and offers support for the employee as long as he/she is employed. Studies have shown this approach to be highly successful. Key components are planning, implementation, and examination.

Planning extensive health promotion programs involve performing a needs and interest assessment, appointing a wellness committee, choosing  wellness providers, setting goals/objectives for the health promotion program, advertising and marketing/promoting the health promotion program, and establishing procedures to ensure confidentiality.

Implementation of robust health promotion programs consist of five major tasks -

1   Biometric screening and referral

2   Follow-up and counseling staff members

3   Follow-up with doctors

4   Health improvement programs

5   Organizing worksite-wide activities.

Investigation involves monitoring health promotion programs to determine when it is working and to help you refine it. Measuring success shows what you’ve achieved, helps justify costs, and provides information for executive management to support continued health promotion programming.

Extensive health promotion programs involve all workers, deal with all major health risks, offers choices, and target both the workers and the workplace environment; provide periodic investigation of its results.

Comprehensive health promotion programs emphasize follow-up and offers support for the worker as long as he/she is employed. Studies have shown this approach to be highly successful. Key components are planning, implementation, and investigation

Creating comprehensive health promotion programs involve performing a needs and interest assessment, appointing a wellness committee, selecting  wellness providers, setting goals/objectives for the health promotion program, advertising/promoting the health promotion program, and establishing procedures to ensure confidentiality

Implementation of comprehensive health promotion programs consist of five major tasks -

o  Health screening and health risk assessment

o  Follow-up and counseling employees

o  Follow-up with physicians

o  Health betterment and disease avoidance programs

o  Organizing workplace-wide wellness program activities.

Investigation involves monitoring wellness programs to figure out if it’s working and to help you refine it.

Measuring success shows what you’ve achieved, helps justify costs, and provides information for executive management to support continued health promotion programming.