Because prevention is better than cure, it is beneficial to engage with employees to help them improve their health in the long term and to follow a healthy lifestyle. This becomes even more pressing in those areas of the world where health education is a major issue or health delivery systems are fragile.

It is not surprising that more and more organisations are embracing health promotion as a pro-active way of helping employees to become healthy and remain that way. The benefits both for them and their employers are obvious.

Health Risk Assessment

The starting point for promoting health and wellbeing is frequently a health risk assessment. This on-line tool enables employees to assess their health and generates a report indicating their current health status in a number of different areas. It also suggests what can be done to improve their scores. Fact sheets can also be provided. Employees can undertake these assessments as many times as they wish throughout the year.

The company in turn will receive management information on the overall health of those participating. These types of programme will usually achieve a 60% participation rate in their first year and this level increases in years two and three.

Most current providers can incorporate this service into an Employee Assistance Programme As well as advising clients on all aspects of health and wellbeing we can help them source appropriate service providers.

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