Archive for November, 2008
Corporate Health Promotion Program Return On Investment
For well over a decade, research has been showing the effectiveness of Corporate Health Promotion Programs. For every dollar spent on Corporate Health Promotion Programs, the returns have been cost savings of between $2.30 and $10.10 in the areas of decreased rates of absence, fewer sick days, decreased WSIB/WCB claims, lowered health and insurance costs, [...]
Gold’s Gym Employee Wellness
Staff members breathe life and value into your business. Within the modern worksite there are increasing instances of stress, anxiety, obesity, depression, and heart disease. The modern worksite has become increasingly physical fitness-free.
Technological advances have lessened the need to “walk” at work. Moving a mouse has the same level of physical exertion as pressing the [...]
Corporate Health Promotion Programs: business Flu Shots
Flu Shot Facts & Myths
Myth: The flu isn’t a serious disease.
Fact: Influenza (flu) is a serious disease of the nose, throat, and lungs, and it can lead to pneumonia. Each year about 200,000 employees in the U.S. are hospitalized and about 36,000 employees die because of the flu. Most who die are 65 years and [...]
Advantages of Corporate Health Promotion Programs
Advantages of Corporate Health Promotion Programs: Easy to Find
Employer’s are learning that Corporate Health Promotion Programs is an effective way to increase productivity, improve employee health, decrease healthcare costs and reduce rates of absence.
A report published in 2003 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) highlighted how important it is for employers [...]
Corporate Health Promotion Programs: Future Directions, Developments and Challenges
Technological and demographic transformations are changing the nature of work in our society. As these changes occur the broad-based model of Corporate Health Promotion Programs described above will evolve and continue to develop. If current trends continue, the workers of tomorrow will be older, more racially and ethically diverse, increasingly female, and will frequently be [...]
Corporate Health Promotion Programs: Integration of business and Community Resources
Worksites do not exist in a vacuum. They are part and parcel of the community in which they are located. Successful corporate administrators are cognizant of the need for positive community relations and should do what is necessary to promote good will. What better way to bridge relationships than by utilizing existing community Corporate Health [...]
Corporate Health Promotion Programs: Health Related business Policies and Procedures
At times Corporate Health Promotion Programs have been instituted as public relations vehicles intended to enhance the corporate image with little concern for improvements in employee health. Companies who are truly committed to enhancing employee health and wellness, are businesses who have worked to include Corporate Health Promotion Programs into the business’s mission statement. With [...]
Corporate Health Promotion Programs: Health and Safe Work Environment
The environmental conditions of the worksite can be divided into both physical and psychosocial domains, both of which influence the culture and climate of a worksite. The cultural norms of a worksite have been identified as powerful determinants of worker health and behavior (Baum, 1995). Ultimately, workers benefit most from a healthy, supportive; eustressful worksite [...]
Corporate Health Promotion Programs: Counseling & Employee Assistance Programs
An employee’s psychological health can never be neglected in a broad-based model of Corporate Health Promotion Programs. Originating out of a need for alcohol abuse interventions in the worksite, today’s employee assistance programs (EAP) encompass assessment and counseling for substance abuse and dependency, stress related disorders, family conflicts and other personal issues.
Evidence of the need [...]
Corporate Health Promotion Programs: employee Health Services and employee Benefits
Small and large businesses carry a significant proportion of the provision of health care for families in this country by providing healthcare insurance for their workers. With the escalating increase in healthcare cost many businesses are attempting to slow the increase of healthcare insurance premiums by providing creative cost control programs. Greater emphasis is being [...]