Healthy Tips for Good Health

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Wellness

“An intentional choice of a lifestyle characterized by personal responsibility, moderation, and maximum personal enhancement of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.”

Health vs. Wellness Health:

Condition of being of sound body with emphasis on freedom from pain and disease.

Wellness: A multi-

dimensional state of well-being, a holistic approach to life that encompasses bodily, mental, emotional, environmental, spiritual and community health.

7 Dimensions of Wellness

1. Emotional2. Environmental3. Intellectual4. Occupational5. Physical6. Spiritual7. Social

Emotional Wellness

Having the ability to feel and express emotions, like happiness, sadness, and anger.

Manage stress, possess self-esteem and self-acceptance, and appropriately sharing your feelings with others.

skills include: seeking and providing support, learning time management skills, practicing stress management skills, and accepting and forgiving yourself.

Environmental Wellness

Includes protecting the earth and its resources and modifying your surroundings to help you achieve a healthy lifestyle.

Ideas: conserve water and other natural resources reduce, reuse, recycle minimize your exposure to chemicals renew your relationship with the earth

Modifying your environment to remove or minimize barriers.

Intellectual Wellness

Making health decisions based on solid scientific evidence obtained from reliable sources.

taking a course or workshop learning a foreign language reading for personal enjoyment seeking out persons who challenge you intellectually taking up a hobby.

Occupational Wellness

Preparing and making use of your skills and talents. Finding a career that is meaningful, enjoyable and rewarding is

vital to job satisfaction. Ideas include:

exploring career options creating a vision of your future being open to learning new skills

Physical Wellness

Encompasses a variety of healthy behaviors including: adequate exercise proper nutrition abstaining from harmful behaviors like drug use and alcohol abuse

Spiritual Wellness

Set of beliefs, principles, or values that guide your life. (Not strictly religion) Increase your spiritual well-being by:

exploring your spiritual core being inquisitive and curious listen to your heart and following your principles

Social Wellness

Receiving and giving support to family and friends, enhancing diversity and becoming active in issues that you care about.

Employee Wellness

Relatively new concept Unhealthy lifestyle leads to chronic disease:

Smoking, poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and alcohol account for 800,000 deaths annually.

108 million people in U.S. have a chronic condition 50% of premature deaths in U.S. are related to modifiable

lifestyle factors. Chronic disease accounts for 70% of nations medical costs.

Increasing Costs and Concern

Determinants of Health

Healthy or unhealthy behaviors impact an individuals health more than anything else.

Physical Activity Nutrition Tobacco/Alcohol/ Drugs Stress Management

HealthBehaviors50%

Environment20%

Genetics 20%

Access toCare 10%

Wellness Program Infrastructure

Virtual –based program infrastructure: On-line Health risk assessment (HRA) Incentives for Wellness (track on-line) Wellness newsletter Email and messaging Health guides Welcome kit Telephone/on-line coaching

Wellness Program Infrastructure

Site-based program infrastructure: On-site programs, facilities such as yoga class, gyms, tobacco cessation

classes, massage therapy, challenges, etc.

A good wellness program will have an infrastructure that includes both virtual and site-based!

A supportive environment for wellness

• Onsite fitness facilities and training facilities.

• Shower facilities• Bike racks• Walking trails• Healthy food options• No tobacco vending – tobacco-free

campus!• Computer access to E-health resources• Quiet space• Wellness as a formal organizational value• Employee orientation• Flex time for exercise• Incentive rewards for wellness• HR policies• Wellness recognition

• Onsite fitness facilities and training facilities.

• Shower facilities• Bike racks• Walking trails• Healthy food options• No tobacco vending – tobacco-free

campus!• Computer access to E-health resources• Quiet space• Wellness as a formal organizational value• Employee orientation• Flex time for exercise• Incentive rewards for wellness• HR policies• Wellness recognition

Health Promotion Methods:

1. Exercise regularly2. Put it in perspective3. Get in touch with yourself4. Relaxation5. Time Management6. Communication7. Prayer & Meditation

USA citizens’ approach to health:

Health Risk are Common in our workplace!Percent of Working Adults with Major (Preventable) Risk Factors Poor Nutrition – 71% Little or no Exercise – 63% Stressed – 61% Cholesterol – 54% Back Care – 44% Driving related (seat belt use, speeding, DUI, texting/cell phone)– 32% Smoking – 22% High Blood Pressure – 21% Alcohol Use – 16%

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