HealthStyle

Schools are the heart and soul of our society. They are responsible for developing our future leaders, yet often the people that are charged with this responsibility are forgotten. Yet Schools are often a workplace to many, and the research tells us a healthy workforce is an effective and productive workforce. So why not help schools support teachers and those that work within our education system to lead a healthy and happy life?

What is the School Health Profiler?

The School Health Profiler is a simple, state of the art system that allows a school to quickly and easily develop your School Health Profile! What is a School Health Profile? It’s a benchmark for your school, that outlines the health risk profile, allowing you to map the way when it comes to the most health, safety and wellness needs.

Driven by our state of the art, information management system, data is safely secured via encrypted login, matched against the staff member, and analysed in order to provide you with real time data.

Why the School Health Profiler?

HealthStyle has developed an industry leading, scientific set of Foundation Principles when it comes to improving the health of an organisation, community or school. Research shows that when programs implement these principles, outcomes are achieved. That’s why these principles guide everything we do.

At the heart of these Foundation Principles is the collection of data and the development of a corporate health risk profile. Why? Because we all start things with good intentions. Yet sometimes, without properly understanding the true needs of a group, we can set about achieving something we didn’t need to or want to achieve. That’s where the School Health Profiler becomes essential.

For example a school may think that there is a high amount of stress within it’s faculty. So that School  begins work on providing support and education around mental health, coping and resilience. Yet what they may have missed is that those people experiencing high emotional distress, are also experience poor sleep, resulting in excessive sleep debt & daytime sleepiness, a well documented factor associated with emotional distress.

By understanding the true Health Risk Profile of a group, we can target the known factors present, design an intervention and then evaluate what happens to that group over time.

How does it work?

The School Health Profiler is designed to be a quick and efficient tool that profiles your faculty and staff, providing you with real time data on the health of those staff. Our powerful, state of the art information management system allows people to connect via modern day technology quickly and easily, wherever an internet connection exist. The data is automatically compiled against your Schools structure ensuring you have access to a meaningful and specific health risk profile the start.

What do you get?

The following are standard components of the School Health Profiler. Of course we love to innovate and customize so there’s something missing we can add it.

For the School			For the Teacher
Participation overview & demographics:	Completion rates overall and by organisational structure Age & gender distribution Ethnicity		The School Health Profiler also benefits staff. Each staff member receives access via secure login to their own individualized portal which contains their own health risk profile and a specifically tailored report which outlines steps to take to improve their health & quality of life. The HealthStyle Risk Index is:   Educational: Staff learn of their own level of health and fitness in line with the latest science on health, wellness & quality of life. The online counselling provides skills for healthier choices matched to the individual, support, and resources for personal health and fitness management. Motivational: HealthStyle gives all staff a simple, meaningful target that will lead to health improvements and lower risk of injury relevant to their initial baseline. Confidential: Personal results from the HealthStyle profiler are only accessible to the individual staff member who participates. The organisation profile contains group information but does not allow individuals to be identified.
Medical History & Body Composition	Reported Medical History General health status Body Mass Index
Health Behaviours Profile (Determinants of Health)	Physical Activity Levels Fruit & Vegetable Consumption Smoking Status Alcohol Consumption
Pain Profile	Prevalence Pain location Pain frequency
Quality of Life	Perceptions on health status Symptoms of depression Daytime sleepiness & fatigue Stress & Strain Work Satisfaction
Occupational Factors	WHS Attitudinal profile Job Strain (Occupational factors contributing to workplace stress)