activity, and improve overall wellness. An examination of a personal food and activity assessment will provide the student with essential data from which to change their health and wellness behaviors. Course Outcomes This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes: CO #1 Assess whether nutritional intake provides basic nutrients for optimal health and wellness. (PO #1, PO #2) CO #2 Describe nutritional needs for optimal health and wellness throughout the life span. (PO #1
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Employer Wellness Programs Employers have been dealing with rising health care costs for a while now, and they are beginning to penalize employees to try to motivate them to get in shape which means that employees will have to begin to pay more attention to their health than they use too. “The number of employers using penalties as part of wellness programs more than doubled from 8% in 2009 to 19% in 2010, according to a survey by human resources consulting firm Towers Watson. The survey respondents
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Event 1: Health Care Summary Jay Hancock wrote an article titled, “Workplace Programs put Employees Privacy at Risk”, which was published to CNN on October 2, 2015. In his article, he discussed how workers from Houston were unsure about joining the employee wellness program because they were on edge to find out if it was in fact a legitimate wellness program or if it was a marketing scheme. Hancock stated that in Houston, it was required of employees to participate with the company wellness program
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has an employee wellness program in place and is not state funded. Because the program already exists, a workplace wellness grant is not needed nor warranted from the bureau. The workplace wellness grant program proposal is to help mitigate and prevent health risk factors. Preventing and or decreasing health risk factors cuts down health costs verses waiting for an illness to appear and then treating the illness. The proposal is to provide employers with grants to fund a wellness program in order
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Associate Level Material Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: pertains to the general health of one's body. Having a cold or flu or if you experience pain or fatigue when you exercise moderately
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Health and wellness DQ1 Please post a 150-300-word response to the following discussion question by clicking on Reply. What are some of the most important elements of health and wellness? Explain your response. Maintaining active life style, having a proper nutrition in your diet, and managing your stress levels are the most import elements of health and wellness. Having a consistent exercise schedule and being active on a regular basis helps shape your body physically and mentally makes you
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Running head: Personal Wellness Personal Wellness Grand Canyon University PCN 303 October 30, 2011 Personal wellness is not limited to the client. Wellness must be a priority of the professional as well. One’s approach to personal wellness must be holistic to include emotional, physical and spiritual health, which in turn helps one to obtain well balanced relationships. An effective counselor takes care of self in order to be prepared to deal with the stresses of the profession. There
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Promoting Wellness and Resilience in the LGBT Community Lisa J. Ware Capella University LGBT is a minority group that continues suffering from inequalities, discrimination, and acts of hate crimes, in addition to, being faced with the challenges that causes mental, emotional and health problems. The sexual orientation of LGBT was once known as a mental illness, however, the individual that classify as having same-sex attraction and/or sexually attract to both male and female, experience great levels
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HR 599 | WELLNESS BENEFITS | They’re a lifesaver in more ways than one… | Og512 2/24/2010 | Employees are faced with obstacles and stressors on a daily basis both professionally and personally. Ideally, one would like to keep the two separated. Unfortunately, that rarely happens. Personal problems lead to undue to stress in the workplace and vice versa. This conflict causes a significant problem for employees and employers. Employees tend to develops mental and/or physical illnesses
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Health and Wellness in the Workplace and the effect on Productivity Employee health and wellness is an ever-increasing topic of discussion amongst organizational leadership. A corporate wellness program is program within an organization that actively promotes a healthy lifestyle through education and the encouragement of a healthy lifestyle possibly through incentives. “The benefits of workplace wellness programs have been widely touted: they are known to improve productivity and can cut
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