Archive for August, 2008
Corporate Wellness – Bottom Line Strategies for Effective Healthcare Reform
It is clear 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 problem OR the government will impose one on us. Managed care has failed from either a cost containment or quality of care perspective. Companies [...]
What Are Employee Wellness Programs?
In the contemporary workplace human resources are highly valued. Employers understand, employees make or break the success of a company and therefore seek to ensure employees are able to maintain a consistent level of productivity. The health and well-being of employees is important to the modern employer. Wellness [...]
Meditation and Wellness Programs
Greetings friends.
I often include meditation in wellness programs and people ask me why? Well quite simply put, it is a much under rated and very important part of every person. Daily meditation has far reaching benefits that will assist most any type of healing modality and approach and in many cases; meditation on its own [...]
Types of Wellness and Fitness Programs
As the broader conceptions of health and wellness have evolved, so too have the typologies of interventions offered by organizations. An early typology offered by several researchers proposed three levels of health programs:
Level I: Awareness programs, including newsletters, health fairs, screening sessions, education classes, and other activities that raise individual awareness of the consequences of [...]
Wellness and Fitness Programs
Wellness and fitness programs typically focus on the promotion of positive health and/or the prevention and resolution of health risks. Inherent in these themes are the perspectives of health as the presence of positive states or health as the absence of illness. Both psychology and medicine have historically focused primarily on preventing health risks and [...]
Wellness Incentive Programs
When an employee is sick or injured, many times it has a direct affect on an employer’s cost of health care, disability, worker’s compensation, increased absenteeism, lower productivity, reduced safety and morale.The object of an employee incentive wellness program is to improve the health of a company’s workers and to improve its productivity. This type [...]
Corporate Wellness – What Is It And Why Is It Important?
What Exactly is Corporate Wellness?
The other day someone asked me “What exactly is corporate wellness?” It occurred to me that many people might not know and be curious about just what exactly corporate wellness entails, why does it matter and how can your organization achieve it?
Why Corporate Wellness Matters:
If you own a business or work [...]
