What is the difference between an employee wellbeing programme and a worksite wellness programe?
Most worksite wellness programs emphasize physical health, focusing on disease risk factors. This is known as the biomedical view. Traditional wellness programs look at disease management and focus on what is outwardly visible, on the surface. So, worksite wellness is traditionally more often associated with healthy lifestyle behaviours most often related to physical health.
Wellbeing on the other hand, includes all aspects of health – emotional, mental, spiritual, social, financial, community, career, as well as the traditional physical aspects.