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1: Objectives and Planning
1: General Information

► Health Promotion and Wellness Programs: Top Health Risks
Obesity, tobacco use and stress are the most common hazards to health in the American workforce. In addition to the direct harm they cause to individual wellness, they also provoke many indirect issues related to health care.
► Company Health and Wellness Programs: Healthy Culture
Cultures develop because of shared beliefs, norms, values and traditions. Company cultures are the result of a combination of employee demographics, type of industry and management style. The company culture establishes and controls expectations for healthy behavior and lifestyle choices. Healthy lifestyle behavior is a result of expectations from employees, their families, and the management team. How the wellness program is introduced can create a culture of health or one of anti-health if the employees are forced to participate...
► Corporate Wellness Companies
A comprehensive corporate wellness company program selects and follows goals set out by health care professionals and/or the domestic wellness committee. These goals are based on the results of the health screen. The goals provide direction and facilitate the development of activities to promote their achievement. Usually a responsibility of the wellness committee, the planning of corporate wellness company program activities and promotion should be visible and available for tracking purposes.
► Employee Health Screening Tools: Uses and Importance
When an employee Health Screening test is administered, it covers standard measurements of vital function. Most often, employees are aware that they have health issues, but have not been tested to determine the level of severity or the risk to their health that these problems represent. The extent to which their health has deteriorated is often an ignored variable. Chronically ill employees have come to accept their present level of illness as normal. The documentation of health risks is necessary in order to be processed for treatment and accessible for admission in employee health care initiatives.
► Worksite Health Promotion Program
...Gentle persuasion and voluntary involvement will encourage continuous employee participation. To optimize wellness program potential, it should have a range of health solutions that can encompass individual preferences and needs. Good health promotion program initiatives permeate the corporate environment as well as the laborers within it. To give the wellness program constant forward momentum, efforts to improve health should be rewarded and supported with evaluation and follow-up for as long as the employees remain with the company...
► Worksite Health Promotion Program: Choosing Realistic Goals
Goal-oriented worksite health promotion programs need an approximate time specific directive to guide the application of the wellness program components. Generally speaking, the overall goal of a worksite health promotion program is to improve employee health. A better goal would take into consideration a priority list of particular health risks pertaining to the company and gear a selection of these particulars to a time within the first 3 years of a wellness program introduction...