Category: Health & Wellness

Celebrate National Employee Benefits Day on April 2nd

Your health is important – complete the Personal Health Risk Assessment today! – with Great West Life Are your eating, sleeping or drinking habits putting you at risk? Do you know how your physical activities and lifestyle affect your health? To help answer these questions, Great-West Life has enhanced our easy to use online Personal […]

Work is Healthy

Work is healthy. That can be a controversial statement in a room of health care professionals who often believe that we (Case Management people) force their patients back to work too soon.  However…. I still believe that work is healthy.  My personal definition of work is “purposeful structured tasks completed in a timely manner to […]

Helping Firms Develop Successful Wellness Programs

Often when we meet with potential partners at presentations or during round table discussions we are asked the same question regarding corporate wellness programs – what makes a wellness program successful? The common issues that HR managers, company owners and health and safety managers often deal with are an increase in benefit costs, rising short […]

Health ministers urging pharmacare program to pay for prescription drugs

The Canadian Press/Graeme Roy June 8, 2015 TORONTO – Canada should have a national pharmacare program to help people pay for prescription drugs, several provincial and territorial health ministers said Monday as they vowed to make it a key issue in this fall’s federal election. “Certainly I think we have an opportunity given that this […]

Increase in drug spending hits 40 year low but expected to rebound soon

The amount of money Canadians spent on prescription drugs last year rose a mere 0.9 per cent, the lowest increase since statistics on drug spending were first measured in 1975, a new report said Thursday. But Michael Law, a health economist at the University of British Columbia, warned that the trend of slowing growth in […]

Taking your Pills – The befefits of drug adherence

In order to gain the positive health outcomes associated with prescription medications, patients must take their drugs “as prescribed” – a simple fact, but it is one too many patients ignore. Here is the shocker: according to the World Health Organization, adherence in developed countries like Canada averages just over 50% Every year medication non-adherence […]

Universal Drug Plan would save us Billions

Canada would save billions of dollars if we instituted a national drug plan. A report was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal making this assertion and it rightly attracted a lot of attention and conversation across the country. This is not a new topic – for years some groups and political parties have advocated […]

Celebrate National Employee Benefits Day – April 2, 2015

Did you even know there was such a day to celebrate our business? 🙂 National Employee Benefits Day 2015 focuses on Wellness 2.0—the growing movement to expand employer wellness programs to ENCOMPASS all areas of total well-being: body, mind, wallet, community and work. Celebrate the day by examining what initiatives your organization could offer to […]

3 Part Series on Mental Health – Part 3

Employers and dealing with Mental Illness in the workplace Since only 23% of employees would talk to their employer about their mental illness, many organizations choose to take responsibility through providing mentally healthy environment and caring about the wellbeing of their employees. It takes some extra work, but with one in three workplace disability claims […]

3 Part Series on Mental Health – Part 2

The Importance of Mental Illness Awareness in the workplace Positive mental health in the workplace is something that is so crucial, yet rarely discussed in an open and educated atmosphere. Our brains are miraculous in design and capability, but when there are issues and chemical imbalances, as well as dissatisfaction and loss of enthusiasm at […]

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