Developing community relationships to enhance well‐being in a worksite wellness program

Background Wellness programs traditionally focus on achieving outcomes such as health improvement, lowered health risks, decreased absenteeism, improved morale and decreased health care costs. Many programs emphasize physical wellness with more recent inclusion of social, emotional, and environmenta...

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Published in:Public health Nursing 2019-05, Vol.36 (3), p.363-369
Main Authors: Click, Elizabeth R., Hammock, Janetta M., Omabegho, Brinn, Kowal Smith, Ann
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Absenteeism
community health nursing
Community relations
Health promotion
Health risks
Migration
Morale
population‐based nursing
program planning
Risk factors
Well being
Wellness
Wellness programs
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Summary:Background Wellness programs traditionally focus on achieving outcomes such as health improvement, lowered health risks, decreased absenteeism, improved morale and decreased health care costs. Many programs emphasize physical wellness with more recent inclusion of social, emotional, and environmental dimensions. That change is referenced as the migration of wellness programs into well‐being efforts. Objective Addressing all elements of well‐being is critical for effective wellness program delivery. Design Recognition of the positive impact related to community well‐being is growing in the literature. When people connect with others at work and develop positive and effective relationships across boundaries, a culture of health grows within organizations. Results and Conclusions This paper reviews three community well‐being initiatives implemented within one university worksite and describes the effectiveness of such programs in building community well‐being.
ISSN:0737-1209
1525-1446
DOI:10.1111/phn.12605