A scientific approach to optimising your health and well-being
Individual and corporate executive programs that encompass your mind your muscles and the meals you eat. A program designed to high lite your attitude, fitness and nutrition, designed to redefine what it means to live healthier for longer.
A scientific approach to optimising your health and well-being
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Wellness Programs Improve Employee Health Behaviors
In truth, the core of every good wellness program is behavior change. With the right education, skills, motivation, skills/tools, and social support, people change behaviors. Wellness programs are good at helping people adopt and maintain healthy behaviors. This is perhaps the biggest benefit of having a wellness program.
Healthy behaviors lead to lower health risks. Lower health risks lead to less chronic disease. With less chronic disease employees have fewer health care costs. It looks like this:
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Proven Workplace Wellness Statistics Every Employer Should Know
Many studies have evaluated the ability of wellness programs to improve health behaviors. Not every wellness program is able to show positive results. Well-organized programs that follow effective behavior change models show the best results. Here are the results from a recently published evaluation. The 1,800 employees at this worksite reported their health behaviors at baseline. They then reported after one year, and two years of the program.
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Any good wellness program focuses on helping employees adopt healthy behaviors. Elevated blood glucose, high blood cholesterol, and high blood pressure are almost all caused by unhealthy diets and lack of physical activity.
Eating and exercising are behaviors. A few years ago, a randomized clinical trial that helped people improve their nutrition and physical activity was published.
Our workplace wellness statistics showed that in as little as six weeks health risks could improve dramatically. Those who maintain healthy behaviors experience lower health risks for six weeks, six months, 12 months, and even out to 18 months after this program began.
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2) Wellness Programs Reduce Elevated Health Risks
When you change your diet, get active, and avoid tobacco, really good things happen. Boise School District is a WellSteps client and not long ago we published the results of their changes in health risks. After one year, a lot of employees who had elevated health risks at baseline, had reached healthy risk levels.
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Reductions in elevated health risks are important. The New England Journal of Medicine reported that for every 1% drop in total cholesterol, the risk of having a heart attack dropped by 2 to 3%. For every one point drop in elevated diastolic blood pressure, there is another 2 to 3% drop in heart disease risk.
Low health risks are the foundation of good health, and wellness programs are a great way to help employees and their spouses avoid elevated health risks. There are hundreds of research papers that evaluated the ability of wellness programs to reduce elevated health risks.
One particular study looking at almost 200,000 wellness participants and showed that 5 of 7 health risks improved after one year.
Another researcher looked at all of the published studies to get a consensus. This review showed that comprehensive wellness programs will have a significant impact on elevated health risks.