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What are the keys to designing an effective workplace health model? The U.S. Centers for Disease Control outlines the steps.

To begin: “A coordinated approach to workplace health promotion results in a planned, organized, and comprehensive set of programs, policies, benefits, and environmental supports designed to meet the health and safety needs of all employees. A comprehensive approach looks to put interventions in place that address multiple risk factors and health conditions concurrently and recognizes that the interventions and strategies chosen influence multiple levels of the organization including the individual employee and the organization as a whole.”

Further, the CDC outlines a four-step process:

• An assessment to define employee health risks and concerns and describe current health promotion activities, capacity and needs
• A planning process to develop the components of a workplace health programs including goal determination; selecting priority interventions; and building an organizational infrastructure
• Program implementation involving all the steps needed to put health promotion strategies and interventions into place and making them available to employees
• An evaluation of efforts to systematically investigate the merit (e.g., quality), worth (e.g., effectiveness), and significance (e.g., importance) of an organized health promotion action/activity