Employee Health and Wellness

What is Employee Health Promotion Program data?

Employee Health Promotion Program data is information that is collected about your Employee Health Promotion Program. All Employee Health Promotion Programs should include data as an integral part of the Employee Health Promotion Program plan.

Why should you care about Employee Health Promotion Program data?

Data tells the Wellness story. Data is the tangible evidence of a Wellness Program’s impact.

Building data into Employee Health Promotion Programs

Why bother with Employee Health Promotion Program Data?

You need Employee Health Promotion Program data to:
• Evaluate whether or not your Employee Health Promotion Program is working.
• Answer the ‘so what?’ about the need for a Employee Health Promotion Program.
• Offer information to Senior Management about the impact of the Employee Health Promotion Program.
• Write a budget justification so you can secure Employee Health Promotion Program resources.
• Use Employee Health Promotion Program resources efficiently and market your Employee Health Promotion Program more effectively.

Where to begin collecting Employee Health Promotion Program data:
• MAKE A PLAN to collect the data: decide what, when, and how information will be collected.
• Determine what information is ALREADY BEING COLLECTED.
o For example: use dairy sales information in the dining center to measure the impact of a milk marketing/dairy month campaign.
• Start collecting JUST A FEW small pieces of information. Be innovative!
o For example: BMI, APFT scores (before & after), tobacco quit rates

IT’S NEVER TO LATE TO START collecting Employee Health Promotion Program data.

Innovative Employee Health Promotion Program data strategies
• Use local college/graduate students to help collect, input, and analyze Employee Health Promotion Program information.
• If your employer has an internship program, get to know the Internship Director. Take advantage of intern resources – including having the Director and/or interns implement the data collection plan for your Employee Health Promotion Program.
• Use information to let upper management know about the Employee Health Promotion Programs affect on the employees.

Present this information at their monthly/quarterly meetings.
• Use innovative follow-up strategies to get information. Phone calls can be effective, but also consider email, mailed surveys with return postage provided, and going to the units in person to collect the information.
• Make data collection ‘fun’ for Employee Health Promotion Program members.
o For example: use a team approach – the team with the ‘best’ overall results gets some sort of award or recognition.
• ALWAYS relate the impact of your Employee Health Promotion Program to readiness.