Employee Health Promotion

Employee Health Promotion Programs start and end with individual health. Individuals, after all, are able to make decisions about maintaining and / or improving their health and wellbeing. Employee Employee Health Promotion Programs must therefore provide the tools and resources needed to assist and motivate individuals to actively participate in the program.

Individual health is only one component of establishing employee Employee Health Promotion Programs. Below you’ll find some things to assist you in your efforts to develop a healthy atmosphere for you and your coworkers.

Encouraging Your Employer to Create an Employee Health Promotion Program

This is the first step in establishing a Employee Health Promotion Program. In recent times more and more employers are establishing to see the value of promoting and supporting the health of their employees. Partnership for Prevention, a nonprofit organization, has released a sourcebook called “Healthy Workforce 2010″ (http://www.wellnessproposals.com/pdfs/tool_kits/healthy_workforce_2010.pdf). This sourcebook is an excellent resource containing information on:

• Benefits of Employee Health Promotion Programs

• Suggestions on where to start

• Tools like surveys and assessment forms

These resources are for both employers and employees to guide the development and evaluate the effectiveness of their new Employee Health Promotion Program. Provide it to your employer as a place to start or read it yourself and present your ideas.

Participating in Employee Health Promotion Programs

Once you have an employee Employee Health Promotion Program established, taking part fully in all aspects of the program is important. Many of us know that we need to more actively engage in Employee Health Promotion Programs to improve our health, yet have difficulty finding and taking the time to do so. These simple steps can jumpstart your participation in an employee Employee Health Promotion Program:

• Examine the offerings that interest you and that you need for health improvement.

• Schedule time to go to the seminar or service.

• Actively following through with recommendations from the program.

• Make a decision now to improve your health. You will feel better today and tomorrow and the next day for actively moving towards wellness.

Here is a list of potential Employee Health Promotion Programs that might be available to you at work:

• ergonomic evaluations and ergonomic training classes

• lactation rooms and classes

• prenatal education program

• quiet rooms for relaxation

• stress management programs

• fitness facilities

• onsite corporate massage

• nutrition education

• onsite primary health care services

• child care facility or resources and referral service

• smoking cessation programs parenting classes

• elder care resources and referral service

• cholesterol, blood pressure and glucose screening programs

• influenza vaccinations

• weight management programs

• health care consumerism programs

• work/life programs

• wellness coach / health coach programs

• onsite mobile mammography

More information to follow in my next posting about Employee Employee Health Promotion Programs