Wellness programs are designed to help both white-collar and blue-collar workers improve health. Blue-collar workers have many barriers to health not shared by white-collar workers so only the best wellness program ideas for blue-collar workers will get results. The term…
Each year the C. Everett Koop Health Project identifies the nation's most effective wellness program and presents it with the Koop Award. This year the Koop Award for the nations best wellness programs has been awarded to Boise School District and…
At the core of every effective worksite wellness program are wellness activities that help employees adopt and maintain healthy behaviors. These activities are also known as wellness challenges or wellness campaigns. Behavior change campaigns usually last between two and six…
Here's a sneak peek: Do wellness programs work? It depends on how well they are structured and administered. To make a wellness program work it needs to follow these design principles. When they do, employees participate, they improve health behaviors,…
What is a Worksite Wellness App? There are many great stand alone apps for fitness, nutrition, trails, and pretty much anything. Most of them are focused one aspect of health, like nutrition or exercise which makes them a great worksite…
Without wellness program participation from employees it's impossible to have successful wellness outcomes. An indicator of a successful program is really good wellness program participation. This success can help justify the cost and work involved in having a wellness program…
A wellness coordinator from a large bicycle manufacturing company was struggling to get their wellness program to produce the kind of outcomes that the CEO wanted to see. They had excellent program participation and yet they were not seeing improvements…
