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Health Matters Mission

A statewide wellness program to enhance the effectiveness and well being of state employees through improving their health.

Guiding Principles

• Healthy employees are an important key to a productive and cost effective workplace.

• Healthy lifestyle behaviors and choices lead to increased productivity and job satisfaction; decreased health insurance costs, absenteeism, presenteeism, stress, and injuries; and improved recruitment and retention.

• Healthy employees influence healthy lifestyle behaviors and choices within their families, especially with their children.

• Healthy employees have a positive impact on the health of their  communities and the state.

• Employees want health and wellness opportunities that deal with body, mind, and emotional well being.

• Employees need to be informed and conscientious health care consumers.

• Employees become informed and conscientious health care consumers through education, screening, resources, and a work environment conducive to health and safety.

• Agencies need a ‘healthy’ work environment and proactive wellness programs that increase efficiency and effectiveness and that encourage employee engagement at all levels.

Employee participation in wellness programs is voluntary.