HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

Often when we think of ‘being healthy and well’ we think of being physically well or just not being unwell. Whereas health and well-being is a balance of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, aspects of life; as all these areas have an impact on well-being.

Definitions of Health and Well-being

The World Health Organisation defines health as: ‘a state of complete mental, physical and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’.

Consider how the absence of these may affect an individual or a business:

  • Health is defined as being well in mind and body
  • Well-being is defined as happiness, contentment and prosperity

Benefits to your organisation of using the principles of Health and Well-being at Work

The benefits identified by organisations include:

  • Improved productivity and quality of work
  • Improved staff morale
  • Improved staff sickness absence rates
  • Improved staff attitudes and behaviours
  • Reduced recruitment costs through lower staff turnover
  • Reduced work-related injury and accidents
Download the prospectus for the ILM Endorsed Award in Health and Wellbeing Management to support your managers and benefit from these improvements.

As human beings we possess one of the most complex designs the world has ever seen. There is more to our make-up than merely a body, there are four major aspects to each person, and all impact on each other; health and well-being and consequently the productivity and profitability of the organisation.

Our health and well-being plays a critical role in all accomplishments and therefore it is important to develop a more holistic and rounded view of health and well-being.

There are two distinct area within which LifeCraft works. These are:

Nine requisites for contented living by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  1. Health enough to make work a pleasure
  2. Wealth enough to support your needs
  3. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them
  4. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them
  5. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished
  6. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbour
  7. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others
  8. Faith enough to make things happen
  9. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future

To improve the health and well-being of you or your organisaion call Heather on 01239 711799, e-mail heatherg@lifecraft.co.uk or download the prospectus for the ILM Endorsed Award in Health and Wellbeing Management to support your managers and benefit from these improvements.