Wellness In the Workplace

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Wellness In the Workplace

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Todays Discussion
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The Cost of Preventable Healthcare
Problems
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The Impact on Employers
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The Wellness Example
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Benefits of Workplace Health Initiatives
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Developing the Wellness Program

• The Ten Steps of Development

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Step 1 Get Support from the Top
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Step 2 Appoint a Wellness Team
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Step 3 Obtaining Employee Input
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Step 4 Collect Health Data
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Assess the Health of your Population
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Useful Tools to Obtain Data
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Step 5 Establish Goals
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Step 6 Design and Implement
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Step 7 Offer Incentives
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Ripped from the Headlines !!!
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Step 8 Create a Healthy Atmosphere
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Step 9 Motivate and Promote
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Step 10 Outcome Evaluation
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Physical Wellness Activities Arent Everything
Though
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The EAP Solution
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Additional Resources

• Visit the WELCOA Web site (www.welcoa.org) to
  find the resources you need to carry out your own
  plan.
• Resource Links
• National Institutes of Health Health topics A-Z
  and the Institutes that research them.
• Shape Up America! A high profile national
  initiative to promote healthy weight and
  increased physical activity in America.
• US Office of Disease Prevention Health
  Promotion Works to strengthen the disease
  prevention and health promotion priorities within
  the collaborative framework of the Federal health
  and human service agencies.
• National Center for Health Statistics The
  Federal Government's principal vital and health
  statistics agency.
• Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts The
  mission of this organization is to support the
  formation of local unions within the Commonwealth
  of Massachusetts affiliated with the
  International Association of Fire Fighters.
• The Law Enforcement Foundation, Inc. The Law
  Enforcement Foundation (LEF) was established by
  the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police in 1986
  to ensure that law enforcement keeps pace with
  trends and developments impacting the communities
  and citizens it serves.
• US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  (CDC) The leading federal agency for protecting
  the health and safety of people at home and
  abroad, providing credible information to enhance
  health decisions, and promoting health through
  strong partnerships.
• Cooper Institute for Aerobic Research Dedicated
  to advancing the understanding of the
  relationship between living habits and health and
  to providing leadership in implementing these
  concepts to enhance the physical and emotional
  well-being of individuals.
• Healthfinder A searchable site that contains
  consumer health and human service information.
• Consumer Corner A part of the Food and Nutrition
  Information Center (FNIC). This site contains
  information about food and nutrition topics.
• American Heart Association A national voluntary
  health agency whose mission is to reduce
  disability and death from cardiovascular diseases
  and stroke.
• National Cancer Institute The institute
  coordinates the National Cancer Program, which
  conducts and supports research, training, health
  information dissemination, and other programs
  with respect to the cause, diagnosis, prevention,
  and treatment of cancer, rehabilitation from
  cancer, and the continuing care of cancer
  patients and the families of cancer patients.
• The Center For Disease Control's StairWELL To
  Better Health Online Toolkit This toolkit
  provides "how-to" assistance for those who wish
  to replicate similar changes to stairwells to
  increase workplace physical activity.
• The Massachusetts Department of Public Health
  official website. The Wellness At Work web site
  is housed within this main web site

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Bibliography and References

• 1999 study by The Employers Health Coalition of
  Tampa, FL
• Business Legal Resources, April 24, 2003
• Risk and Insurance, March, 2004
• New Cornell University study, published in April
  2004 of the Journal of Occupational and
  Environmental Medicine. A study of 375,000
  employees over a 3-year period
• Recent BankOne survey of employees
• Dee W. Edington PhD, Director, Univ. of Michigan
  Health Mgmt Research Center
• Elevated Stress Levels Lead to Presenteeism, by
  Richard Chaifetz, CEO of ComPsych, provider of
  EAP programs
• Bulletin to Management, 12/5/2002, BNA
  Professional Information Center
• Braun Consulting News, 2003 CCH Unscheduled
  Absence, Business Insurance July, 2000, and the
  US Bureau of Labor Statistics