Health Sciences 2250A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Health Promotion, Employee Retention, Absenteeism

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2250A/B
• Professor: Jennifer Irwin

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Daycare: tailored to specific group you want to approach, start with broad base and narrow it further and further to become more specific/tailored. No, but is reality community: employee/individual; and employer: values/benefits common to hp programs include: Increased worker productivity: employee retention & loyalty, attitude & morale changes, skill development, reduction in absenteeism. Lowering of health risks: #1 needs/social assessment, get info re needs from potential participants if different from stakeholders (big picture na) [na is critical process, more to come re detailed gleaning of na data: #2 consider epidemiological data, epi: use true fact examples: smoking is responsible for over 41000 deaths in. Yes especially re funding: more likely to come when already deemed an acceptable focus, consider too individual-vs pop-based programs esp. re selling program. Important to have rep from organization sponsoring program facilitates contributed buy-in from higher ups: keep membership useful & accountable re goals of program.