Health Promotion incorporates many facets of our daily lives. From the amount of sleep to the water we drink, to the food that we eat and the activity that we maintain, our health is dependent upon many factors of our lifestyle. Working to improve our wellness could be challenging to …
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In today’s fast paced world our busy lives leave little time, energy, or motivation for individuals to focus on their own needs. Those that do seek to improve their wellness traditionally turn to friends, family, professionals and published materials for support and information. All too often those support structures fail …
Information to evaluate your health promotion program comes from routinely accumulated screening and follow-up data of your health promotion program that look at process and outcomes of your program. The Employee Health Program has available a computerized case-management system which includes queries that allow easy assessment of process and outcome …
The keys to a successful health promotion program are persistent one-on-one outreach and follow-up counseling to encourage health improvement, adherence to treatment programs, changes in lifestyle behaviors, and to prevent relapse. Periodic outreach and follow-up procedures provide employees with a safety net which keeps them involved in the health promotion …
The menu approach offers employees a range of options to support lifestyle changes. It allows people to select the type of help that suits their schedules and preferences. The four basic types of wellness programs include o Courses o Minigroups o Guided self help o Individual counseling Classes Courses (8 …
The educational program ought to include approaches to stress awareness/reduction at the environmental level and at the individual level. Social, physical, and organizational stressors should be explained and methods to ease or elevate stressors should be presented. At the individual level how changes in attitudes and behaviors help one to …
A nutrition education program should include a nutritional needs assessment, education counseling, and referral as necessary. Nutrition education sessions and materials should include the following information o The relationship of nutrition and chronic illnesss o Improving consuming patterns o Relationship of nutrition and proper weight maintenance o Exercise o Stress …