Corporate Health Promotion Programs that support workers and the setting that they work in have been shown to be a good return on investment. Corporate Health Promotion Programs can be extensive and sometimes expensive. However, there are ways for small organizations to make positive changes at little or no cost.
Corporate Health Promotion Program: Physical Fitness/Weight [...]
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Corporate Health Promotion Programs that support workers and the setting that they work in have been shown to be a good return on investment. Corporate Health Promotion Programs can be extensive and sometimes expensive. However, there are ways for small organizations to make positive changes at little or no cost.
Corporate Health Promotion Program: Nutrition Programs
Fruit [...]
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(Adapted from The Health Promotion First Act prepared by David Anderson, Ph.D., StayWell Health Management)
Staff Member Lifestyles Impact Staff Member Health
• Approximately 40% of all deaths in the United States are premature (at least 900,000 deaths annually) and are due to unhealthy lifestyle choices such as tobacco use, poor diet, sedentary lifestyle, misuse of alcohol [...]
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1. Senior management involvement in the Corporate Health Promotion Program- Evidence of enthusiastic commitment and involvement of senior management helps workers understand their organizations’ serious commitment to health. Employees need to perceive that their senior management, supervisors, and coworkers have positive attitudes toward health since these factors have all been associated with improved employee health [...]
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Introduction to Corporate Health Promotion Programs
Risky health behaviors by workers cost a company. Changing those behaviors can save the employer money and increase the worker’s productivity.
Because work gives an worker a stable setting and support system, Corporate Health Promotion Programs can have a great impact on decreasing high-risk behaviors. This impact results in decrease health [...]
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Why have Corporate Health Promotion Program goals?
Corporate Health Promotion Program goals take your corporation’s priorities for employee health improvement and make them specific and measurable. Well-defined Corporate Health Promotion Program goals provide direction for selecting Procedures and a basis for which to measure progress.
Writing Corporate Health Promotion Program goals
Writing Corporate Health Promotion Program goals is [...]
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If your corporation is interested in measuring the impact of your Corporate Health Promotion Program efforts in future years, you’ll want to gather relevant baseline data on the health and health behaviors of your worker population.
Corporate Health Promotion Program Data on your worker population
Health Risk Assessments
Some health plans offer organizations free internet-based health risk assessments [...]
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In addition to looking at the health behaviors of workers, take a good look at your corporation. The following questions can help you identify opportunities for your corporation to support and encourage healthy behaviors among workers.
A strong foundation for employee health improvement
1. To what extent does the senior management in your corporation actively and visibly [...]
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Why it’s important and how to do it
The Corporate Health Promotion Program Vision
A Corporate Health Promotion Program vision statement is a concise statement that summarizes the purpose and goals of your corporation’s commitment to establishing a Corporate Health Promotion Program. Taking the time to clarify and describe your corporation’s Corporate Health Promotion Program vision can [...]
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Sample Corporate Health Promotion Program meeting agendas and topics for discussion
Is your corporation’s Corporate Health Promotion Program Health Promotion Committee new? Has it existed on paper but been inactive for a while? In either case, some of the following may be appropriate agenda items for your first Corporate Health Promotion Program meetings. You may also [...]
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