Archive for September, 2010
Improve Corporate Wellness through Emotional Health Techniques.
5 Ways to Assess and Improve Your Employees’ Health Emotional health is a state of wellness that comes from understanding and acknowledging our emotions and locating appropriate ways to express them. As staff, we often bring emotional problems from our childhood or current family life into the workplace because we have not dealt with them [...]
Certain life events can be traumatic events. These include the death of a spouse, a divorce or a natural disaster, like a hurricane, tornado. Living through one of these events can affect us. We can be affected physically, mentally and emotionally. We all react differently. It is important to remember that there is no right or wrong way to feel.
Some of the reactions to a traumatic event include – o Numbness o Shock o Extreme sadness and/or crying o Irritability o Difficulty concentrating o Having bad dreams about the event o Unexplained aches, pains, fatigue, lowered energy o Changes in your appetite o Changes in your sleep These reactions are normal, but if these [...]
Wellness Programs Now as Important as Cost and Workforce Issues.
25 percent Jump in Business Interest in Worker Wellness Corporate wellness for their personnel, companys are discovering, is good for the health of their businesses as well. Wellness programs help to cut the costs associated with poor staff member health, which include absenteeism, loss of productivity and poor work quality. A recent Hewitt Associates survey [...]
Tobacco use and Influenza
When you’re thinking about quitting use of tobacco – today is the time to take the appropriate steps to do so. o Some research studies show an increase in flu infections among smokers compared to nonsmokers. o There is a higher mortality rate for smokers than nonsmokers from influenza Additional respiratory health consequences – o [...]
The Excellent Cover-Up
Skin cancer is the most common kind of cancer diagnosed. Each year there are more than 1 million diagnoses of skin cancer. The number of skin cancers continues to rise. Exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet rays causes most skin cancers. It isn’t easy to avoid sunlight, but there are things we can do to protect [...]
Corporate Wellness and Effective Healthcare Reform.
It is clear to virtually every American (namely those of us in business) that healthcare costs are skyrocketing out of control. No one doubts that either the market will solve the problem OR the government will impose one on us. Managed care has failed from either a cost containment or quality of care perspective. Organizations [...]
Older Americans More Likely to Be Hit Harder by the Flu
Vaccination Can Save Your Life Older Americans have been around the block several times and know plenty about surviving life’s challenges – big and small. But one challenge that many will face this and every influenza season is “influenza,” which might present more than a minor setback. For most individuals , getting influenza, commonly known [...]
The Facts About Alcohol
Moderate alcohol use For adult women and men over the age of 65, moderate alcohol use is no more than 1 drink a day. For adult men younger than 65, it’s no more than 2 drinks per day. A standard drink is o 12 ounces of regular beer o 8 to 9 ounces of malt [...]
Health Promotion Programs.
Research spanning more than a decade has consistently shown wellness programs to be financially effective and that every dollar invested on a wellness program can return $2.30 and $10.10 by reducing absenteeism, sick day usage and by decreasing insurance costs. Moreover it’s noted that there are marked improvements in employee performance and productivity in organizations [...]
On the Front Line – Nurses Urged to Get Influenza Vaccination
It’s been said that “nurses are the heartbeat of the healthcare system.” Without them, the system couldn’t survive. Sometimes, nonetheless, in their dedication to caring for others, nurses may forget to take care of themselves. This, too, can significantly burden the healthcare system, particularly when nurses catch the flu. Statistics show that fewer than half [...]