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Healthy Tips for Good Health
http://www.corporatewellnessmagazine.com/
Wellness
“An intentional choice of a lifestyle characterized by personal responsibility, moderation, and maximum personal enhancement of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.”
Health vs. Wellness Health:
Condition of being of sound body with emphasis on freedom from pain and disease.
Wellness: A multi-
dimensional state of well-being, a holistic approach to life that encompasses bodily, mental, emotional, environmental, spiritual and community health.
7 Dimensions of Wellness
1. Emotional2. Environmental3. Intellectual4. Occupational5. Physical6. Spiritual7. Social
Emotional Wellness
Having the ability to feel and express emotions, like happiness, sadness, and anger.
Manage stress, possess self-esteem and self-acceptance, and appropriately sharing your feelings with others.
skills include: seeking and providing support, learning time management skills, practicing stress management skills, and accepting and forgiving yourself.
Environmental Wellness
Includes protecting the earth and its resources and modifying your surroundings to help you achieve a healthy lifestyle.
Ideas: conserve water and other natural resources reduce, reuse, recycle minimize your exposure to chemicals renew your relationship with the earth
Modifying your environment to remove or minimize barriers.
Intellectual Wellness
Making health decisions based on solid scientific evidence obtained from reliable sources.
taking a course or workshop learning a foreign language reading for personal enjoyment seeking out persons who challenge you intellectually taking up a hobby.
Occupational Wellness
Preparing and making use of your skills and talents. Finding a career that is meaningful, enjoyable and rewarding is
vital to job satisfaction. Ideas include:
exploring career options creating a vision of your future being open to learning new skills
Physical Wellness
Encompasses a variety of healthy behaviors including: adequate exercise proper nutrition abstaining from harmful behaviors like drug use and alcohol abuse
Spiritual Wellness
Set of beliefs, principles, or values that guide your life. (Not strictly religion) Increase your spiritual well-being by:
exploring your spiritual core being inquisitive and curious listen to your heart and following your principles
Social Wellness
Receiving and giving support to family and friends, enhancing diversity and becoming active in issues that you care about.
Employee Wellness
Relatively new concept Unhealthy lifestyle leads to chronic disease:
Smoking, poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and alcohol account for 800,000 deaths annually.
108 million people in U.S. have a chronic condition 50% of premature deaths in U.S. are related to modifiable
lifestyle factors. Chronic disease accounts for 70% of nations medical costs.
Increasing Costs and Concern
Determinants of Health
Healthy or unhealthy behaviors impact an individuals health more than anything else.
Physical Activity Nutrition Tobacco/Alcohol/ Drugs Stress Management
HealthBehaviors50%
Environment20%
Genetics 20%
Access toCare 10%
Wellness Program Infrastructure
Virtual –based program infrastructure: On-line Health risk assessment (HRA) Incentives for Wellness (track on-line) Wellness newsletter Email and messaging Health guides Welcome kit Telephone/on-line coaching
Wellness Program Infrastructure
Site-based program infrastructure: On-site programs, facilities such as yoga class, gyms, tobacco cessation
classes, massage therapy, challenges, etc.
A good wellness program will have an infrastructure that includes both virtual and site-based!
A supportive environment for wellness
• Onsite fitness facilities and training facilities.
• Shower facilities• Bike racks• Walking trails• Healthy food options• No tobacco vending – tobacco-free
campus!• Computer access to E-health resources• Quiet space• Wellness as a formal organizational value• Employee orientation• Flex time for exercise• Incentive rewards for wellness• HR policies• Wellness recognition
• Onsite fitness facilities and training facilities.
• Shower facilities• Bike racks• Walking trails• Healthy food options• No tobacco vending – tobacco-free
campus!• Computer access to E-health resources• Quiet space• Wellness as a formal organizational value• Employee orientation• Flex time for exercise• Incentive rewards for wellness• HR policies• Wellness recognition
Health Promotion Methods:
1. Exercise regularly2. Put it in perspective3. Get in touch with yourself4. Relaxation5. Time Management6. Communication7. Prayer & Meditation
USA citizens’ approach to health:
Health Risk are Common in our workplace!Percent of Working Adults with Major (Preventable) Risk Factors Poor Nutrition – 71% Little or no Exercise – 63% Stressed – 61% Cholesterol – 54% Back Care – 44% Driving related (seat belt use, speeding, DUI, texting/cell phone)– 32% Smoking – 22% High Blood Pressure – 21% Alcohol Use – 16%
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