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Health Promotion Programmes
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Services - > Health Promotion Programmes
What is the aim of health promotion?
Health Promotion enables and empowers individuals to take charge of their own health and the quality of their lives. The workplace has been identified as a key setting in which to promote health and employers can make a major contribution to influencing the health of its workers and prevent illness and injury that will impact on the employee’s job and the overall productivity of the organisation.
How can HealthForce help?
At HealthForce we have many packages which cater for a variety of organisational settings. Our programmes include:
- Back Care
- Stress Management and mental health (Coping with Pressure etc)
- Smoking Cessation
- Men’s health /Women’s health
- Cancer awareness
- Work Life Balance
- Diet and lifestyle including:
- Healthy Heart programs
- Diet, nutrition and weight management
- Exercise and the importance of physical activity and fitness
- Awareness talks on diabetes, cholesterol etc
- Alcohol awareness/Drug awareness
- Workshops for parents/guardians on drug and alcohol use and misuse and how to deal with these issues in their children as this is an increasing cause of stress and concern for parents/guardians which can affect their work life balance
- First aid workshops with basic life saving skills e.g. CPR, Choking, heart attack, bleeding and bandaging (adult and child workshops available)
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Suicide prevention/EAP
What are the benefits of a health promotion programme?
- Encourages employees to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing
- Help to prevents illness through increased education regarding health issues
- Can reduce the impact of personal medical conditions and the affect these can have on the organisation and its productivity
- Employees feel they are valued within the organisation