Wellness Plans : Health Promotion Program Investigation.

Investigations determine the outcome of a Health Promotion Program. They help you find out if your objectives were met. It is a good idea to add an investigation component to your Health Promotion Program.

Examinations may conclude that some interventions didn’t work well. You may find that a popular Health Promotion Program costs too much and didn’t really affect employees’ health.

While these might not be the outcomes you hoped for, without this information you may continue ineffective interventions. Having this information will help you develop better solutions.

When your results are excellent, it is magnificent! You can spread the word to workforce and executive management that your health promotion program is achieving its goals.

Three major areas of an examination

• Wellness Program structure – the basic framework of the program

• Wellness Program process – Precisely how well the program is run

• Health Promotion Program outcomes – Whether or not the health promotion program met the set objectives

Common questions used to evaluate a Health Promotion Program

Structure Questions

• What’s included in the Wellness Program? What’s the intervention?

• Where does the Wellness Program take place?

• How’s the Wellness Program delivered? What content is included?

• Who manages the Wellness Program?

Process Questions

• Exactly how many people  participate?

• Do participants complete the Wellness Program?

• Are participants satisfied?

• Which aspects of the Wellness Program are best attended?

Outcome Questions

• Does the Health Promotion Program improve information about health issues?

• Does the Wellness Program change behavior?

• Does the Health Promotion Program save the business money?

• What’s the ROI?

Download a sample health promotion program (http – //www.ibx.com/pdfs/custom/wellness_partners/services/turnkey_programs/walking/participant_eval.pdf) investigation from IBC’s Walking Towards Wellness program.

• Identify through an staff member survey what incentives they value.

• Identify what incentives the organization can provide as well as what the budget will allow.

• Ensure that every participant who achieves a goal receives some recognition.

• Prevent offering incentives for the “best” or the “most.”

• Prevent using food as a reward.

• Use incentives to promote your health promotion program, through logos and branding.