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Workplace Wellness Initiative
Create a customized wellness program for your employees and business; see the results ripple through your company.
Employees in poor health cost American businesses huge sums annually. Wellness programs can help recruit and retain employees, control health insurance costs, reduce absenteeism, increase productivity and improve morale. Dean Health Plan can help you develop a health and wellness program for your employees. No matter what your experience, Dean will work with you to create a workplace environment that supports healthy lifestyle choices and provides opportunities for employees to become full partners in managing their health.
What is Health Promotion in the workplace?
Health Promotion is a multidisciplinary field that relies on education and targeted interventions to help change behaviors and environments in ways that are conducive to living healthy. The term Health Promotion refers to the science behind what the concept of wellness is all about.
Why offer Health Promotion in the workplace?
Organizations benefit by providing Health Promotion programs in their workplace because the health risk status is not static. It is important for an organization to understand that today's low-risk individual can transition to a high-risk individual in a very short period of time. There are two crucial steps to understanding total risk:
1. Establishing baseline benchmarks defining risk distribution
2. Observing the migration, or churn, between risk groups
What can Health Promotion in the workplace provide your organization?
The goals of Health Promotion in the workplace are to reduce preventable health risks and optimize health and productivity while lowering health-related costs. At its best, workplace Health Promotion creates a culture that promotes vitality, motivation and overall effectiveness of human capital and potential.
We invite you to browse our Wellness Resource Guide to learn more about how Dean Health Plan can help you to implement Health Promotion programs in your workplace.
