The Health Promotion Committee should set out a plan for the entire year that outlines accomplishing objectives and objectives, in addition to provides details for advertising and investigating the wellness program.
The plan is the detailed map of what types of wellness programs will be offered, when and where they will be scheduled, how they will be marketed and investigated, and what the budget is.
It is crucial that you plan your wellness activities based on your objectives and objectives, in addition to the budget since different strategies will yield different outcomes. For example, if your objective is to elevate awareness on a topic, then distributing handouts or scheduling a one-time education session may be appropriate.
Nonetheless, if your goal is to change behavior, then different strategies might be necessary, such as ongoing weekly sessions and support groups. Click here to link to Program Design Options for more ideas.
Wellness Program Marketing
This is the time to plan your marketing and advertising strategies! Exactly how can you market the wellness program and ongoing activities? No matter how you decide to, market often, keep it fresh, and remind staff members again and again!
Consider having an overall kickoff activity to let everybody know about the health promotion program. Senior Management ought to provide the introduction or invitation so that all workers are alert to their support and leadership in the health promotion program.
Possible marketing and advertising methods -
o Sending email messages, including reminders
o Posting flyers,
o Displaying bulletin board postings,
o Writing articles,
o Sending letters or
o Sending special invitations.
Other Wellness Program Considerations -
o Is the wellness program promoted to all employees or to a specific target audience?
o Do you have a health promotion program champion (someone who’s connected with different groups in the organization, and well respected) who can help in your promotion efforts?
o If your marketing and advertising efforts do not seem to be working, do you’ve a way to revisit and adjust your strategy?
o How will you determine success and evaluate your health promotion program? and how’ll you collect the information needed to evaluate your health promotion program?
Topics most often included in Wellness Programs -
o Nutrition
o Physical Activity/Exercise
o Tobacco Use Cessation
o Bone Health
o Heart Health
o Healthful Back
o Stress Reduction
o Chronic Condition Awareness and Prevention
o Self-care; Wise Health Care Consumer
o Screening Services (BMI, blood pressure, bone density, cholesterol, glucose, posture, vision, and otherâ..)
o Ergonomic Assessments
o Health Fairs
o Kids/family Events
o Others topics that staff members have interest in
The topics and kind of Wellness Program planned depend on the needs and interest, overall goal and resources available.
Program Design Options include awareness programs such as handouts and/or education sessions, behavior change or modification programs such as smoking cessation and weight loss classes, and environmental or organizational support such as no smoking policies or healthful selections in vending machines.
The wellness programs planned also depend on the demographics of your workforce. If you’ve a young, healthful workforce, you may want to focus the wellness attention on keeping employees healthful and not need to screen for illness.
Instead you may want to focus on healthful lifestyle behavior like exercise and good nutrition to prevent the start of disease. Click here for more information on strategies for keeping workforce well, identifying disease early, or returning workforce to work who already have a chronic illness.
It is also crucial to consider, and plan how you will evaluate the success of your health promotion program. The system needs to be established for tracking certain data and recording events depending on the health promotion program objectives and desired outcomes.
Step 7 discusses wellness program evaluation in more detail. and Step 6 will launch your wellness program!