Question

What are the considerations for reviewing and evaluating worker health and wellbeing measures and initiatives? List seven things to consider

         

You are part of a committee running a long-term health and wellbeing program. The program has been designed to educate workers about healthier eating, aimed at reducing worker illness and improving productivity.

1. What indicators would you use to evaluate the program from a process, outcome, and sustainability perspective? List four indicators for each perspective.
2. What data sources would you use to evaluate the program from a process, outcome, and sustainability perspective? List four indicators for each perspective.
3. When reviewing and evaluating a health and wellbeing program, what information needs to be included in a report?

Answer 1

a) The indicators that would help us evaluate our program about "educating workers on healthy eating and aiming at reducing worker illness & improving productivity" are-

1. Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption

2. Improving nutrition knowledge and behaviour

3.Promoting healthy shopping and cooking

4. Promoting healthy body weight

5. Promoting and maintaining diabetes and other diet-related health conditions

6. Getting regular and adequate amount of sleep

7. Eating regular well-balanced meal, including breakfast

8. Engaging in Regular Physical Activity

9. Not using Tobacco products, including smoking and chewing

10. Using Alcohol in Moderation or not at all

Process-

1. Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption- One should start eating lots of fruits and vegetables. Please note eating boiled vegetables or uncooked vegetables is the best way to get perfect amount of nutrition content in each veggies. You should try not to eat cooked vegetables for healthy life. The more uncooked vegetable you eat, the best impact it will make to your health.

2. Improving nutrition knowledge and behaviour- Humans need a wide range of nutrition to lead a healthy and active life. There is always a limited amount of food you can eat in a single day. Some of the items that are nutrient rich are- Salmon, Garlic, Potatoes, Kale, Blueberries, Egg Yolks, Dark Chocolates (cocoa), etc. The best way to stay fit to eat food that carry greatest amount of nutrients that is very very good for a healthy life.

3. Promoting healthy shopping and cooking- Shop the stuffs that is healthy like- eggs, vegetables, fruits, dark chocolates, etc. We intent to buy chips, cold drinks, pizzas, etc which is absolutely not good for a healthy living. Similarly, cook food that will help to stay fit like - omlete, fruit salad, vegetable salad, boiled vegetables, slightly sorted vegetables, various varieties of dal, etc.

4. Promoting healthy body weight- Obesity is associated with a shorter life span and also with an increase risk of major health diseases. You can keep your weight in balance by eating healthy diet and not loading up with empty calories.

Outcome-

1. Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption- The outcome of having lots of fruits and vegetables will reduce risk of having many health diseases like heart disease, high blood pressure and some cancer.Fruits and vegetable are rich in vitamins & minerals that help you feel healthy and energised.

2. Improving nutrition knowledge and behaviour-Good nutrition also helps reduce risk of health diseases like- diabetes, stroke, cancer or osteoporosis, reduce high blood pressure, lower high cholesterol, improve your ability to fight off illness, improve your ability to recover from illness or injury.

3. Promoting healthy shopping and cooking- You will stay fit and active. By eating junk food, people face digestion or gastric problems. Once gastric problem arises it will give room to various other diseases. Hence, eating healthy food like specified is of utmost important of a healthy life cycle.

4. Promoting healthy body weight- A basic science evidence indicates that lean people who maintain a healthy body weight through healthy diet and being physically active have healthier metabolic profiles, lower risk of developing chronic disease, and a lower risk of mortality.

Sustainability Perspective-

Humanity has the ability to make development sustainable - to ensure that it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Hence, everyone should think that eating healthy by compromising at present will benefit a lot in the near future. This small habits of eating in a daily life will keep on having a greater impact of ones near future. Eat sustainable food products like- buy as many seasonal fruits and vegetable, eat less animal products, eat less processed food, eat egg yolks, yogurt, etc.

b) Data Sources used to evaluate "the program from a process, outcome, and sustainability perspective" are-

1. Focus groups and interviews
2. Surveys and questionnaires
3. Observations
4. Electronic health record data

Process-

1. Focus groups and interviews - Individuals or workers could be interviewed alone or as part of a focus group to describe their experience accessing care and any barriers they encountered in the program of healthy eating to lead a healthy life.
2. Surveys and questionnaires- These can be used to collect information on individuals or workers experiences accessing care and healthy eating. They might include closed-ended questions such as rankings, yes/no questions, or multiple choice, as well as open-ended questions that provide qualitative data on individuals or workers experiences accessing care and healthy eating.
3. Observations- Evaluators might observe individuals or workers entering a clinic and describe any barriers they perceive. This type of data collection would be especially useful for describing difficulties that individuals or workers with physical disabilities have with a healthcare facility's physical environment.
4. Electronic health record data- This could be used to demonstrate an increase in visits by individuals with disabilities or to document changes in health status and use of care by rural patients with disabilities.

Outcome-

The entire objective of this exercise is to ensure that the workers are living in healthy environment for their long life. It also ensures whether the individuals/ workers are able to implement the process prescribed to them for healthy living. After conducting interviews and observations regarding healthy eating, there might be few individuals or workers who might face problems in implementation of certain habits in their day-to-day life, hence we would help them out further by designing a special program and giving additional assistance and support.

Sustainability-

Whether all the workers are implementing the process prescribed in a right way and that the same process will not affect their future generations in a negative way. We ensure that with an individual or a worker, his family is also trained and even they start living healthy life by eating healthy in a regular manner. This will not only help the worker stay fit and increase his lifespan but also increase his families lifespan and they could enjoy a happy and peaceful life.

c) When reviewing and evaluating a health and well being program, the information that needs to be included in a report are:

1. Number of workers active in the program.

2. Number of days the program was conducted.

3. What were the points discussed in the program to eat healthy

4. Number of workers who implemented the process and procedure described throughout the program.

5. Number of workers whose life changed with such program and how did it change (taking feedback from the worker).

6. Number of workers who were unable to implement certain things discussed, and that we should design a new process to furthermore educate them and help them out in healthy eating.

7. How did healthy eating helped workers reduce health disease problems.