Health Assessment of the Employees of the Provincial Government

This study focus on the mandate of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) on health and well-being of the employees that has been neglected by present and previous administration; through various memoranda issued by the CSC, the Provincial Government established its health and wellness program for the employees. To effectively implement the program, technical expertise from the Provincial Health Office (PHO) was sought to formulate an Assessment Tool to be used to assess the health status of the employees and to identify the contributory or risk factors for a person’s likelihood to acquire disease. Using a structured survey questionnaire, the result shows that 45% of the total number of employees in terms of age are between 45 to 60 years old and 61% are presently diagnosed with hypertension, diabetes, cardio-vascular disorder, asthma and cancer. In the course of the study, it shows that the possibility of a person to develop a disease is through his lifestyle (Modifiable Risk Factor) and family history or hereditary (Non-Modifiable Risk Factors). This so called life style diseases prompted the emergence of health and wellness program as a corporate responsibility of the employers to help their employees cope with their health condition.

Keywords: health, wellness, risk factors, lifestyle, assessment