The vast majority of Canadians believe that they are in very good or excellent health, according to a study comparing Canada to other OECD countries. In reality, however, rising incidence of chronic diseases, high levels of non-adherence to treatments and a health illiteracy rate of 60% paint a discouraging picture of the state of wellness in this country.
Teresa Steinhauer of the City of Calgary talks about sleep, wellness and life lessons
Green Shield Canada has launched an initiative called Change4Life, which aims to help employees better manage their health.
When Mount Sinai Hospital’s poet-in-residence makes her rounds, she delivers the healing power of words.
When BP Canada divested its natural gas businesses in the summer of 2010, it lost 75% of its workforce. At the same time, the company was positioning for significant growth through the development of new business. Employee retention and attraction became paramount, and benefits were put under the microscope.
Here are some stories about how various employers have improved workplace wellness.
When the City of Calgary conducted an employee wellness needs survey in 2011, one result served as a wake-up call: more than 60% agreed they would like to learn how to get more sleep and feel more rested. This prompted the employer of 16,000 to research the impact of poor sleep on health, safety and productivity—and what it learned could keep you up at night. Instead, that employer decided to do something about it.
Benefits Canada’s 2014 Healthy Outcomes Conference explored the return on investment in health and wellness programs—and how to create change for the better
Wellness programs have become markedly more prevalent in recent years, with many more employers relying on these programs as an important complement to their benefits strategy, and an effective tool in managing the health of their employees and their productivity and benefits plan costs. However, many smaller or mid-sized organizations, though definitely interested in employee wellness, struggle with how to best integrate an effective approach into their benefits offering.
Employers' views of wellness have evolved over the last few years.
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