A Holistic Approach to Corporate Health and Wellness

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Tauzin ND ◽  
Karim Pachiyannakis
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Denitsa Andonova ◽  

This article analyses the tendency of implementing the holistic approach to corporate wellness strategies. Based on the guidelines of Corporate Health and Wellness Association and combined with observation and practical cases in companies the following article presents literature overview, trends, challenges and good practices in building a corporate wellness strategy and programs in Bulgarian companies.


2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
N. Koen ◽  
L. Philips ◽  
S. Potgieter ◽  
Y. Smit ◽  
E. Van Niekerk ◽  
...  

Background: Emphasis is currently placed on the importance of employee and student wellness initiatives. The aim was to assess staff and student health status at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), Stellenbosch University (SU), and to conduct a wellness needs assessment.Methods: Online, self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data concerning staff and students. Additionally, students’ anthropometric and biochemical parameters were assessed. Summary statistics, correlation coefficients and appropriate analysis of variance were used for data analyses.Results: Data were obtained from staff (survey: n = 300) and students (screening: n = 536; survey: n = 330). Some 58% (n = 174) of staff had a self-reported BMI of ≥ 25 kg/m2 whilst mean screening values for all variables fell within normal reference ranges for students. In all, 78% (n = 232) of staff reported to exercise 150 min/week and 28% (n = 91) of students were sedentary for 8 h/day; 63% (n = 188) of staff expressed the need to make better food choices, 17% (n = 55) of students were aware of the need to change but experienced reluctance, and both staff and students felt dietary assistance would be beneficial (43% vs. 46%). In addition, 79% of staff (n = 208) and 42% of students (n = 138) reported being under constant pressure.Conclusion: Much can be done to improve the health and well-being of both staff and students at the FMHS, SU. Wellness is a multifactorial concept; as such, health-promotional strategies for classrooms and workplaces should consider all factors in order to provide a holistic approach and potentially identify those who are at risk of a sub-optimal wellness status.


INDIAN DRUGS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (11) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Vish Prakash ◽  

Dear Reader, This Guest Editorial could not have been better timed than now even though it should have given the call nearly ten years back! However, this editorial has become longer than what I envisaged, and seek your patience to read through it in your leisure time. The positioning of the Indian subcontinent as a leader in the world for Health and Wellness is an important agenda. The paradigm shift of Health to Health and Wellness is the need of the hour. India in its tradition and Wisdom has always related to Food and Wellness as one entity, especially in Ayurveda and the basic concepts governing it. That’s not all. If India does not wake up and push the agenda of Wellness strong enough internally and be a Global Champion with its heritage of 5000 years of traditional wisdom in this area, then we are sure to lose out on many Economic fronts too in this sector, especially in the discovery battle of New Drugs. It can emerge as a leader and the Pharmaceutical Industry must aggressively ensure that the huge raw material advantage India has in its resilience of Agriculture and the favorable climate it provides, from North to South and East to West 12 months in a year, is capitalized. We are sitting on a Platinum mine but almost not using it at all?! The need for infrastructure and capacity building for the Wellness Industry to grow is unlimited in India and also in the global market and its huge reach out. It needs a new movement altogether to have a budget allocation from the Pharma Giants to invest in India and the Government’s mindset to partner and promote the same, not just by parks but an investment to make it win-win financial enterprises which will thrive with Trillions of Indian Rupees businesses with India as a hub. There are many who have done it boldly and hats off to them. But much much more is needed in the logarithmic phase and scale.


Author(s):  
Nicole Elliott

Gestalt therapy is similar to an Aboriginal worldview in that they both involve a holistic approach and focus on health and wellness strategies. The Aboriginal worldview is best portrayed as holistic in nature, where the circle of wellness symbolizes unity, wholeness, completeness, and balance. Dream work is a therapeutic technique utilized in Gestalt therapy that could be very useful for Aboriginal peoples given their spiritual and narrative way of being. This article demonstrates the cultural acceptability for utilization of dream work in Gestalt with Aboriginal clients. Furthermore, it discusses both strengths and limitations of this modality of therapy. Implications for use are also discussed.


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