Health Essentials: A practical an easy way to promote the Health Basic Concepts to our employees

Introduction:  Discussion of one corporation of 55,000 employees worldwide to implement the process of health basics concepts communication program with the goals; to promote and improve the health basics knowledge and reduce the main causes of absenteeism by general disease within all the employees in 27 countries.  

Methods: Commitment for the implementation with the company Health Council, design the best way to do (Cost /benefit), best practices worldwide references, identify the most common causes of absenteeism in the company, and finally found  the most easy and rapid way to spread the  health concepts within our employees and establish the health performance indicators.  

Conclusion: All our occupational and preventive health programs in our company are based in four preventive levels; the first of one is the Information and Health Promotion. With our “Health Essentials” Program we have started to create the base and guidelines to spread the basic health concepts to inform our employees -with a non medical language -about of the most common diseases and how we can to prevent them. Additionally we created a great synergy between our countries and reduce the time to implementation of our program with a great level of acceptation and ownership in each country.