Corporate Health Wellness through Company Intranet

"Prevention is better than cure," it is said and the same holds true in today’s world of persistent stress and work pressures.  With this stress in workplace already showing its impact on the efficiency of the working of any organization, through constant health worries of the employees leading to reduced efficiency and absenteeism, it is time that the companies joined the bandwagon of preventing a major crisis in the making before it turned into one.  Through the meticulous planning and execution of various corporate health wellness efforts, many of the top visionary companies have put a lid on this impending problem and the time is not far when all companies, big or small, will have to follow suit.

Dr. Meena Shah is one of the leading trainers and visionaries in the field of corporate health wellness and the most recent additions to her repertoire of innovative corporate health wellness activities is Intranet Wellness.  Gauging the trend of ever increasing population of employees logged onto the intranet, she feels that the future of corporate health wellness lies there.  Customizing it according to the requirement of the client, she builds, for the company, a wealth of health and wellness related material which could be accessed by the employees anytime.  This material includes three major components for easy assimilation of information on health issues and related tips:

• Bank of ready information on health care, lifestyle and disease care
  • This encompasses simple, necessary and scientific information on various health care, disease care and lifestyle related issues.  The same carries around 1000-1200 pages of content accompanied by pictures and graphics to make the same easily comprehendible.
• Series of PowerPoint Presentations on major health issues
  • The simplest way of absorbing and understanding information is through visual aids.  Carrying around 25-40 slides each; 30 to 35 different presentations on major issues like healthy nutrition, fitness, stress management in workplace, diabetes, High BP, heart attack, back-ache, indigestion, women’s health, motherhood, etc. are uploaded on the company’s intranet for the employees to give a quick look through.
• Daily health triggers in text & video
  • Creating a recall for all that has been learnt by the employees doesn’t stand to be neglected.  It has to be reinforced continually for it to be registered in their minds forever.   Creating and delivering everyday triggers and reminders on health care and stress management on the computers of the employees can be helpful in creating such recall.  Such reminders are either in the text or the video format to be uploaded on the company intranet every day.

AREAS OF HEALTH & WELLNESS COVERED

The following areas of health and wellness are covered in the content made available to the company to be uploaded on its intranet

1. Nutrition Awareness
2. Balanced eating with help of healthy food pyramid
3. Healthy cooking & menu planning for family
4. Weight Management
5. Optimum fitness
6. Strength, stamina & suppleness exercises for whole body
7. Ergonomics, posture care & office yoga
8. Yoga for Good health & disease care
9. Pranayams, breathing- relaxation & meditation.
10. Good Sleep
11. Avoiding fatigue
12. High Energy Lifestyle.
13. Stress management in Workplace
14. Work life balance
15. Backache, neck pain & other joint problems: facts, prevention, exercises & treatments.
16. Various daily health concerns, their causes, care & treatments
17. Common diseases their prevention & care
18. Information on medical checkups & self evaluation of health
19. Women’s health with lifecycle approach
20. Age & aging- Wellness and fitness with increasing age
21. Dental care
22. Eye care
23. Children’s health

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