Health Handouts : What Is A All-Inclusive Corporate Health Promotion Program?

All-Inclusive Employee Wellness Programs involve all workers, deal with all major health risks, offers choices, and target both the workers and the worksite environment; offer periodic assessment of its outcome.  All-Inclusive Employee Wellness Programs emphasize follow-up and offers backing for the employee as long as he/she is employed. Studies have shown this approach to be highly efficacious. Key components are planning, implementation, and assessment.

Developing inclusive Workplace Wellness Programs involve performing a needs and interest assessment, appointing a Workplace Wellness Program Committee, selecting wellness providers, setting objectives and goals for the corporate wellness program, marketing/promoting the program, and instituting procedures to ensure confidentiality.

Implementation of comprehensive Employee Health Promotion Programs consist of five major tasks:

1.   Health assessment and referral
2.   Follow-up and counseling workers
3.   Follow-up with physicians
4.   Health improvement programs
5.   Organizing workplace-wide activities.

Assessment involves monitoring Workplace Health Promotion Programs to discover if it is working and to help you refine it. Measuring success shows what you have achieved, helps justify costs, and provides information for management to support continued programming.