The 6-week “Buns of Steel” Challenge has just been completed by over 200 employees.Physical activity levels averaged over 14,500 step equivalents and 18 flights of stairs daily.Ninety-five employees also completed strength training 10 minutes at least twice a week.The increase in body strength was impressive. After...
Veterans Affairs Canada has chosen to award a grant from the Veteran and Family Well-Being Fund to the Clinemetrica Team to develop a health and wellness program for veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces. The program will be called The Canadian Veterans AgeWell Challenge.“Clinemetrica will take the scientific...
The 2nd year results from the Merck Canada Workplace Wellness Program have been published in The American Journal of Health Promotion.This scientific publication highlighted how the corporate wellness program evolved in its second year, exhibiting sustained participation rates and improved engagement rates. Measures of...
You don’t have to look terribly hard to find examples of initiatives meant to improve employees’ well-being that have gone horribly wrong. These “corporate wellness programs” include health screenings and gym discounts. There are also “random acts of wellness”—as Harvard Business Review described them in a 2016 article—or short-term...
Canadian participation rates in workplace wellness programs are extremely low, with just 11 per cent of employees participating on a regular basis and 23 per cent participating only occasionally, according to the 2015 Sanofi Canada health-care survey. But one workplace wellness program is reversing this trend. Global health...
Growth in UK life expectancy is starting to ease off – and no one knows why. Clare Wilson and Andy Coghlan explore the possibilitiesTHE past century saw rapid growth in life expectancy, a key measure of progress. But no longer.UK figures released this month show that the...
Workplace wellness programs are still in their infancy in Canada, but a recent McGill study points to evidence that they are a good investment for the companies that offer them to their employees.“Most of the literature about these programs , where the government offers financial...
Over a decade of experience and knowledge in administering health and wellness programs informs both the myhealthcheckup and nVIGORus wellness platforms.On May 25th, Dr. Steven Grover presented some of the key lessons learned at the Benefits Canada Healthy Outcomes conference in Toronto.Read the full story by clicking...
Leadership support and social connectivity among ingredients of an effective wellness program.Canadian participation rates in workplace wellness programs are extremely low., with just 11 percent of employees participating on a regular basis and 23 percent participating only occasionally, according to the 2015 Sanofi Canada health-care survey…. ...
With permanent behavioural change so difficult to instil, how can employers ensure their wellness programs achieve their intended results?At Benefits Canada‘s Healthy Outcomes conference in Toronto on Friday, Dr. Steven Grover, a professor of medicine at McGill University, shed some insight from his experiences dealing with the impacts...