Company Health and Wellness : Employee Health Promotion Program: Outcome Assessment

Evaluations determine the outcome of a Employee Health Promotion Program. They help you figure out if your objectives were met. It is a good idea to add an assessment component to your Employee Health Promotion Program.

Evaluations may conclude that some interventions didn’t work well. You may learn that a popular Employee Wellness Program costs too much and didn’t really affect employees’ health. While these may not be the outcomes you hoped for, without this information you might continue ineffective interventions. Having this information will help you foster better solutions. When your results are great, it’s magnificent! You can spread the word to workers and management that your program is achieving its goals/objectives.

Three major areas of an evaluation

• Worksite Health Promotion Program structure – The basic framework of the program
• Worksite Wellness Program process – How well the program is run
• Workplace Wellness Program outcomes – Whether the program met the set objectives

Common questions used to evaluate a Employee Health Promotion Program

Worksite Wellness Program Structure Questions

• What is included in the Workplace Wellness Program? What is the intervention?
• Where does the Workplace Wellness Program take place?
• How is the Company Wellness Program delivered? What content is included?
• Who manages the Workplace Wellness Program?

Company Wellness Program Process Questions

• How many people participate?
• Do participants complete the Company Health Promotion Program?
• Are participants satisfied?
• Which aspects of the Workplace Health Promotion Program are best attended?

Worksite Wellness Program Outcome Questions

• Does the Workplace Wellness Program improve knowledge about health concerns?
• Does the Company Wellness Program modify behavior?
• Does the Workplace Health Promotion Program save the business money?
• What is the return on investment (ROI)?

• Ascertain through an employee survey what incentives and rewards they value.
• Identify what incentives and rewards the corporation can support as well as what the budget will allow.
• Be sure that every attendant who achieves a goal receives some recognition.
• Avoid offering rewards and incentives for the “best” or the “most.”
• Avoid using food as a reward.
• Use incentives and rewards to reward your Company Health Promotion Program, through logos and branding.