Employee Health and Wellness Program Data
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What is Employee Health and Wellness Program data?
Employee Health and Wellness Program data is information that is collected about your Employee Health and Wellness Program. All Employee Health and Wellness Programs should include data as an integral part of the Employee Health and Wellness Program plan.
Why should you care about Employee Health and Wellness Program data?
Information tells the Wellness story. Information is the tangible evidence of a Wellness Program’s impact.
Building data into Employee Health and Wellness Programs
Why bother with Employee Health and Wellness Program Data?
You need Employee Health and Wellness Program data to:
• Evaluate whether or not your Employee Health and Wellness Program is working.
• Answer the ‘so what?’ about the need for a Employee Health and Wellness Program.
• Provide information to Senior Management about the impact of the Employee Health and Wellness Program.
• Write a budget justification so you can secure Employee Health and Wellness Program resources.
• Use Employee Health and Wellness Program resources efficiently and market your Employee Health and Wellness Program more effectively.
Where to begin collecting Employee Health and Wellness Program data:
• MAKE A PLAN to collect the data: decide what, when, and how data will be collected.
• Find out what data is ALREADY BEING COLLECTED.
o For example: use dairy sales data in the dining facility to measure the impact of a milk marketing/dairy month campaign.
• Begin collecting JUST A FEW small pieces of information. Be creative!
o For example: BMI, APFT scores (before & after), tobacco quit rates
IT’S NEVER TO LATE TO START collecting Employee Health and Wellness Program data.
Innovative Employee Health and Wellness Program data strategies
• Use local college/graduate students to help collect, input, and analyze Employee Health and Wellness Program data.
• If your business has an internship program, get to know the Internship Director. Take advantage of intern resources – including having the Director and/or interns implement the data collection plan for your Employee Health and Wellness Program.
• Use data to let upper management know about the Employee Health and Wellness Programs affect on the staff members.
Present this information at their monthly/quarterly meetings.
• Use creative follow-up strategies to get data. Phone calls can be effective, but also consider email, mailed surveys with return postage provided, and going to the units in person to collect the information.
• Make data collection ‘fun’ for Employee Health and Wellness Program members.
o For example: use a team approach – the team with the ‘best’ overall results gets some sort of award or recognition.
• ALWAYS relate the impact of your Employee Health and Wellness Program to readiness.
