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Comprehensive Corporate Wellness Programs

Comprehensive corporate wellness programs involve all employees, deal with all major health risks, offers choices, and target both the employees and the worksite environment; provide periodic evaluation of its results. Comprehensive corporate wellness programs emphasize follow-up and offers support for the employee as long as he/she is employed. Studies have shown this approach to be highly successful. Key components are planning, implementation, and evaluation.

Planning comprehensive corporate wellness programs involve performing a needs and interest assessment, appointing a wellness committee, selecting wellness providers, setting goals/objectives for the corporate wellness program, marketing/promoting the program, and establishing procedures to ensure confidentiality.

Implementation of comprehensive corporate wellness programs consist of five major tasks:

1. Health screening and health risk assessment
2. Follow-up and counseling employees
3. Follow-up with physicians
4. Health improvement and disease prevention programs
5. Organizing worksite-wide wellness program activities.

Evaluation involves monitoring corporate wellness programs to find out 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.

October 13, 2007 (6:34AM)

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