I would be very interested to know if anyone has looked at the Active wkplace or wellness in workplaces as a buisness opportunity for RSTs and what the outcome of this was?
I understand Counties - Manukau RST has set up a trading arm.Whether they wish to pursue active workplaces as business opportunities remains to be seen.
How to Implement and Evaluate Worksite Wellness Programmes
This page provides a resource for groups and individuals wanting to set up a workplace wellness programme. It lists a range of books, internet sites and ‘toolkits’ which will assist in selecting programmes which are relevant to specific work environments. Many of them give a step-by-step guide to initiating a programme and describe how to evaluate and monitor the on-going effectiveness of a programme.
• Active for Life -‘Taking it to the Workplace- State of Victoria Workplace Health Programme - Available via www.vichealth.gov.au
The Active for Life programme is an initiative of the Australian state government’s cancer and heart offensive. This resource provides helpful information and contacts to promote the Active for Life Programme in the workplace. It describes each step to be taken in developing an effective programme and how to assess and evaluate the health of the organisation overall.
• British Heart Foundation Workplace health Activity Toolkit. Available ds-bhf@mail.dataforce.co.uk.
• Centers for Disease Control PEP: A Personal Energy Plan Cooper Institute 2002. Available www.cooperinst.org
The PEP (Personal Energy Programme) is a 12-week self-directed worksite programme to promote healthy eating and moderate physical activity. The programme materials include workbooks for healthy eating and physical activity targeting employees based on their readiness to change. A co-ordinator’s kit, promotional brochures and posters are also included in the programme.
PEP was developed by CDC’s Nutrition and Physical Activity Communications Team using market analysis and consumer research. In 1997 the programme was pilot tested in five worksites located in four states representing more than 15,000 employees in white and blue collar occupations.
While health communication strategies and educational self-help kits were the primary components of the intervention, each worksite provider added other activities tailored to their own employee populations. An evaluation of this pilot intervention revealed that self-directed educational materials designed to target specific segments of the population are in demand by worksite health promotion personnel and can be effective in producing healthy eating and moderate physical activity behaviour change in persons inclined to do so.
• Business Case for Active Living at Work - www.activelivingatwork.com
This internet resource was set up by the Canadian Council for Health and Active Living at Work. It sets out the benefits of being active in the workplace, summarises research that has been done, provides information about what works and what has been done in the past. Most importantly it describes in detail how to get started with setting up a worksite wellness programme and provides a template for practitioners to use in developing a business case for active living in the own organisations.
• Building the Commitment: A Policy Approach - Active Living in the Workplace - www.hcsc.gc.ca/hppb/fitness/work/main_a_e.html
This useful internet resource was set up by the Canadian Centre for Active Living in the Workplace. It sets out the eight key steps to consider in developing active living policies. Each step includes suggestions and tips on how to move your organisation towards a formalised commitment to Active Living.
• Chenoweth, David H. Worksite Health Promotion Human Kinetics 1998
This book has been written primarily for undergraduate and graduate students planning careers in the field of workplace health promotion and for those who plan, implement, and direct workplace health programmes for their companies. The book is separated into ten chapters that fall into four key categories:
1. Introduction to Worksite Health Promotion • The case for worksite health promotion
2. Planning and implementing worksite health promotion • Identification and assessment • Planning worksite health programs • Implementing worksite health programs • Evaluating health promotion efforts.
3. Worksite health promotion programs • Building a health work environment • Health lifestyle programs and resources • Model worksite health programs
4. Other considerations in worksite health • worksite health promotion for small and multi-site businesses • Professionally preparing for the worksite
• Davidson-Rada, J. & Davidson-Rada, M. Beyond Band.aid: A Guide to Effective Health & Wellness Programmes in New Zealand Workplaces. Published by Davidson-Rada. Printed GP Books, Wellington,1992. ISBN: 0-477-07588-6.
This book is a guide to health promotion in New Zealand workplaces and is written specifically for people in a position to implement programmes. The guide contains information from overseas literature and experience, and New Zealand organisations active in health promotion. It is based on the authors’ study investigating the extent of health promotion activities within New Zealand workplaces, and contains tested ideas and a range of suggestions from no-cost through to ‘big-spender’ options. The appendix to this book lists a vast array of contacts throughout NZ that can assist with workplace health objectives.
• Kahn, J.P. and Langlieb, A.B. (eds) Mental Health and Productivity in the Workplace: A Handbook for Organizations and Clinicians San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2002 (in press).
• O’Donnell How to Design Workplace Health Promotion Programs American Journal of Health Promotion 2001
This workbook describes a comprehensive three step process for designing workplace health promotion programmes:
1. preparing for the design process 2. collecting the appropriate data to plan the programme including conducting a prospective cost benefit analysis 3. selecting programme content, developing the administrative structure and outlining the evaluation plan
Programmes are described in the context of the dimensions of optimal health:
1. physical health 2. emotional health 3. social health 4. spiritual health 5. intellectual health
and to recognise the three levels of the programme:
• typical costs of the basic programme options • stage appropriate behaviour change strategies • best programmes for specific health and organisational problems • questions to pose in interviews with top management • sample questionnaire to use with employees • a grid to estimate the impact of different levels of programmes on organisational goals
This fifth edition has been updated to reflect the characteristics of the best workplace health programmes identified through a nation-wide bench marking study. These include:
• linking programmes to business goals • including incentive programmes • creating a supportive culture • cultivating top management support • effective communication • conducting programme evaluation • communicating the results effectively • developing a strong budget
• O’Donnell Health Promotion in the Workplace American Journal of Health Promotion 2000
This updated, revised third edition offers students and practitioners a framework for studying work place health promotion as well as reviewing the significant conclusions that have been reached in this field over the past decade. This book is aimed at three key audiences: students at the graduate and undergraduate level courses on health promotion; professionals working within employer settings who are responsible for developing, managing or supervising health promotion programmes; and consultants responsible for designing health management programmes.
The book is organised into 22 subject headings that fall in five key categories:
1. Health Promotion Concept • Health effects of health promotion • Employers’ financial perspective on workplace health promotion
2. Programme Management • Design of workplace health promotion programmes • Programme management of workplace health promotion programmes • Programme evaluation
3. Strategies • Awareness strategies • Theoretically-based strategies for health behaviour change • Building supportive cultural environments
4. Interventions • Health assessment • Physical activity in the workplace • Worksite nutrition programmes • Worksite weight management • Tobacco control and cessation • Medical self-care • Stress management • Employee assistance programmes • Social health in the workplace
5. Perspectives • Workplace health promotion in small business • Ageing and worksite health promotion • Global perspectives in workplace health promotion • Connecting the workplace to the community • The future of workplace health promotion.
• Pelletier, Kenneth R. A Review and Analysis of the Health and Financial Outcome Studies of Comprehensive Health Promotion and Disease prevention Programs at the Worksite American Journal of Health Promotion 2000.
This series of reviews provides a tabular summary of the purpose, study design, sample size, sample description, sampling protocols, study duration, outcome measures, results and reference citations of 77 studies which have examined the heath and financial impact of comprehensive workplace health promotion programmes. For the later article, the focus changed to cite only articles that examined both the clinical and cost outcomes of the programmes. Each of the three articles also includes an editorial commentary by Dr Pelletier on forces influencing the future of this field and issues critical to programme evaluation, and research.
Readers have used these articles to provide evidence to programme funders that health promotion programmes do indeed have positive health and financial impacts. Dr Pelletier points out that there is more evidence supporting health promotion programmes than there are for many commonly practised medical procedures, and for virtually all employee benefit programmes.
• SAMHSA (Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration). Http://workplace.samsha.gov.
This internet site describes the steps to take in setting up a drug free workplace. It provides resources and tools for designing effective programmes and places a strong emphasis on employee education.
• Washington Business Group on Health The Worksite Health Promotion Sourcebook, WBGH, Washington, DC, 1993.
This workbook provides the reader a hands-on guide for developing a plan to evaluate health promotion programmes. The guide assists the programme co-ordinator to obtain the hard data necessary for justifying successful programmes and for improving marginal ones. The workbook provides a look at key questions for evaluating health promotion programmes:
• Why should programmes be evaluated? • Can results be generalised from one programme to another? • Why do health promotion programmes fail? • Are there arguments against programme evaluation? • What should be evaluated? • Who gives agreement on programme objectives achieved? • Should the focus be on a few or many success measures? • What are the basic questions of research?
General principles of applied research are covered in four major steps:
• Design • Measurement • Sampling • Analysis
Figures and tables include:
• What should be evaluated • Evaluation designs • Sample size requirements • Financial measures assessed • Customer satisfaction survey
• Chenoweth, D.H., Evaluating Worksite Health Promotion Human Kinetics, Illinois, 2002.
• Goetzel, R. How to Evaluate Workplace Health Promotion Programs American Journal of Health Promotion 2000
• Goetzel, R.Z., “Essential Building Blocks for Successful Worksite Health Promotion Programs.” Managing Employee Health Benefits 6:1, Fall, 1997.
3 comments:
I would be very interested to know if anyone has looked at the Active wkplace or wellness in workplaces as a buisness opportunity for RSTs and what the outcome of this was?
I understand Counties - Manukau RST has set up a trading arm.Whether they wish to pursue active workplaces as business opportunities remains to be seen.
How to Implement and Evaluate Worksite Wellness Programmes
This page provides a resource for groups and individuals wanting to set up a workplace wellness programme. It lists a range of books, internet sites and ‘toolkits’ which will assist in selecting programmes which are relevant to specific work environments. Many of them give a step-by-step guide to initiating a programme and describe how to evaluate and monitor the on-going effectiveness of a programme.
• Active for Life -‘Taking it to the Workplace- State of Victoria Workplace Health Programme - Available via www.vichealth.gov.au
The Active for Life programme is an initiative of the Australian state government’s cancer and heart offensive. This resource provides helpful information and contacts to promote the Active for Life Programme in the workplace. It describes each step to be taken in developing an effective programme and how to assess and evaluate the health of the organisation overall.
• British Heart Foundation Workplace health Activity Toolkit. Available ds-bhf@mail.dataforce.co.uk.
• Centers for Disease Control PEP: A Personal Energy Plan Cooper Institute 2002. Available www.cooperinst.org
The PEP (Personal Energy Programme) is a 12-week self-directed worksite programme to promote healthy eating and moderate physical activity. The programme materials include workbooks for healthy eating and physical activity targeting employees based on their readiness to change. A co-ordinator’s kit, promotional brochures and posters are also included in the programme.
PEP was developed by CDC’s Nutrition and Physical Activity Communications Team using market analysis and consumer research. In 1997 the programme was pilot tested in five worksites located in four states representing more than 15,000 employees in white and blue collar occupations.
While health communication strategies and educational self-help kits were the primary components of the intervention, each worksite provider added other activities tailored to their own employee populations. An evaluation of this pilot intervention revealed that self-directed educational materials designed to target specific segments of the population are in demand by worksite health promotion personnel and can be effective in producing healthy eating and moderate physical activity behaviour change in persons inclined to do so.
• Business Case for Active Living at Work - www.activelivingatwork.com
This internet resource was set up by the Canadian Council for Health and Active Living at Work. It sets out the benefits of being active in the workplace, summarises research that has been done, provides information about what works and what has been done in the past. Most importantly it describes in detail how to get started with setting up a worksite wellness programme and provides a template for practitioners to use in developing a business case for active living in the own organisations.
• Building the Commitment: A Policy Approach - Active Living in the Workplace - www.hcsc.gc.ca/hppb/fitness/work/main_a_e.html
This useful internet resource was set up by the Canadian Centre for Active Living in the Workplace. It sets out the eight key steps to consider in developing active living policies. Each step includes suggestions and tips on how to move your organisation towards a formalised commitment to Active Living.
• Chenoweth, David H. Worksite Health Promotion Human Kinetics 1998
This book has been written primarily for undergraduate and graduate students planning careers in the field of workplace health promotion and for those who plan, implement, and direct workplace health programmes for their companies. The book is separated into ten chapters that fall into four key categories:
1. Introduction to Worksite Health Promotion
• The case for worksite health promotion
2. Planning and implementing worksite health promotion
• Identification and assessment
• Planning worksite health programs
• Implementing worksite health programs
• Evaluating health promotion efforts.
3. Worksite health promotion programs
• Building a health work environment
• Health lifestyle programs and resources
• Model worksite health programs
4. Other considerations in worksite health
• worksite health promotion for small and multi-site businesses
• Professionally preparing for the worksite
• Davidson-Rada, J. & Davidson-Rada, M. Beyond Band.aid: A Guide to Effective Health & Wellness Programmes in New Zealand Workplaces. Published by Davidson-Rada. Printed GP Books, Wellington,1992. ISBN: 0-477-07588-6.
This book is a guide to health promotion in New Zealand workplaces and is written specifically for people in a position to implement programmes. The guide contains information from overseas literature and experience, and New Zealand organisations active in health promotion. It is based on the authors’ study investigating the extent of health promotion activities within New Zealand workplaces, and contains tested ideas and a range of suggestions from no-cost through to ‘big-spender’ options. The appendix to this book lists a vast array of contacts throughout NZ that can assist with workplace health objectives.
• Kahn, J.P. and Langlieb, A.B. (eds) Mental Health and Productivity in the Workplace: A Handbook for Organizations and Clinicians San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2002 (in press).
• O’Donnell How to Design Workplace Health Promotion Programs American Journal of Health Promotion 2001
This workbook describes a comprehensive three step process for designing workplace health promotion programmes:
1. preparing for the design process
2. collecting the appropriate data to plan the programme including conducting a prospective cost benefit analysis
3. selecting programme content, developing the administrative structure and outlining the evaluation plan
Programmes are described in the context of the dimensions of optimal health:
1. physical health
2. emotional health
3. social health
4. spiritual health
5. intellectual health
and to recognise the three levels of the programme:
1. awareness
2. behaviour change
3. supportive environments
Figures and tables include:
• typical costs of the basic programme options
• stage appropriate behaviour change strategies
• best programmes for specific health and organisational problems
• questions to pose in interviews with top management
• sample questionnaire to use with employees
• a grid to estimate the impact of different levels of programmes on organisational goals
This fifth edition has been updated to reflect the characteristics of the best workplace health programmes identified through a nation-wide bench marking study. These include:
• linking programmes to business goals
• including incentive programmes
• creating a supportive culture
• cultivating top management support
• effective communication
• conducting programme evaluation
• communicating the results effectively
• developing a strong budget
It also recognises six major programme models:
• traditional
• neo-traditional
• incentive focused
• mail-based
• pleasure-based
• technology-based
• hybrid model.
• O’Donnell Health Promotion in the Workplace American Journal of Health Promotion 2000
This updated, revised third edition offers students and practitioners a framework for studying work place health promotion as well as reviewing the significant conclusions that have been reached in this field over the past decade. This book is aimed at three key audiences: students at the graduate and undergraduate level courses on health promotion; professionals working within employer settings who are responsible for developing, managing or supervising health promotion programmes; and consultants responsible for designing health management programmes.
The book is organised into 22 subject headings that fall in five key categories:
1. Health Promotion Concept
• Health effects of health promotion
• Employers’ financial perspective on workplace health promotion
2. Programme Management
• Design of workplace health promotion programmes
• Programme management of workplace health promotion programmes
• Programme evaluation
3. Strategies
• Awareness strategies
• Theoretically-based strategies for health behaviour change
• Building supportive cultural environments
4. Interventions
• Health assessment
• Physical activity in the workplace
• Worksite nutrition programmes
• Worksite weight management
• Tobacco control and cessation
• Medical self-care
• Stress management
• Employee assistance programmes
• Social health in the workplace
5. Perspectives
• Workplace health promotion in small business
• Ageing and worksite health promotion
• Global perspectives in workplace health promotion
• Connecting the workplace to the community
• The future of workplace health promotion.
• Pelletier, Kenneth R. A Review and Analysis of the Health and Financial Outcome Studies of Comprehensive Health Promotion and Disease prevention Programs at the Worksite American Journal of Health Promotion 2000.
This series of reviews provides a tabular summary of the purpose, study design, sample size, sample description, sampling protocols, study duration, outcome measures, results and reference citations of 77 studies which have examined the heath and financial impact of comprehensive workplace health promotion programmes. For the later article, the focus changed to cite only articles that examined both the clinical and cost outcomes of the programmes. Each of the three articles also includes an editorial commentary by Dr Pelletier on forces influencing the future of this field and issues critical to programme evaluation, and research.
Readers have used these articles to provide evidence to programme funders that health promotion programmes do indeed have positive health and financial impacts. Dr Pelletier points out that there is more evidence supporting health promotion programmes than there are for many commonly practised medical procedures, and for virtually all employee benefit programmes.
• SAMHSA (Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration). Http://workplace.samsha.gov.
This internet site describes the steps to take in setting up a drug free workplace. It provides resources and tools for designing effective programmes and places a strong emphasis on employee education.
• Washington Business Group on Health The Worksite Health Promotion Sourcebook, WBGH, Washington, DC, 1993.
This workbook provides the reader a hands-on guide for developing a plan to evaluate health promotion programmes. The guide assists the programme co-ordinator to obtain the hard data necessary for justifying successful programmes and for improving marginal ones. The workbook provides a look at key questions for evaluating health promotion programmes:
• Why should programmes be evaluated?
• Can results be generalised from one programme to another?
• Why do health promotion programmes fail?
• Are there arguments against programme evaluation?
• What should be evaluated?
• Who gives agreement on programme objectives achieved?
• Should the focus be on a few or many success measures?
• What are the basic questions of research?
General principles of applied research are covered in four major steps:
• Design
• Measurement
• Sampling
• Analysis
Figures and tables include:
• What should be evaluated
• Evaluation designs
• Sample size requirements
• Financial measures assessed
• Customer satisfaction survey
• Chenoweth, D.H., Evaluating Worksite Health Promotion Human Kinetics, Illinois, 2002.
• Goetzel, R. How to Evaluate Workplace Health Promotion Programs American Journal of Health Promotion 2000
• Goetzel, R.Z., “Essential Building Blocks for Successful Worksite Health Promotion Programs.” Managing Employee Health Benefits 6:1, Fall, 1997.
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