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Getting Started – Secure management support

• Justifications for having a Health Fair

• Health risk assessments

• Help for high-risk population: smokers, obese workers

• Early detection of diabetes, heart disease risk factors (high cholesterol, high blood pressure)

Health Fair Participation – Identify your audience

• Employees only, whole family, retirees?

• Community involvement? Theme?

Health Fair Time Line

• Set a date and time Allow 4-6 months of planning time

Health Fair Planning

• Identify health-related screenings, tests, other activities you’ll offer Identify educational literature and other learning opportunities Health Fair will provide Include any “fun” activities, or food/beverage needs for the fair

Health Fair Location & Logistics

• Consider location big enough to accommodate the largest volume of people at “peak time” periods

• Determine how booths/stations will be set up

Health Fair Vendors

• Target relevant health/safety-related community and corporate vendors to provide services, educational materials, incentives and giveaways

Health Fair Marketing

• Determine marketing tools to be used to inform workers/members (posters, mailings, e-mail)

• Determine any incentives or giveaways that will be included in the fair or used to encourage participation in the fair

Health Fair Scheduling

• Coordinate timing and events with staff and/or volunteers

Health Fair Personnel

• Schedule appropriate experts Physician or similar healthcare personnel to provide patient consultation for review of blood draw lab results

• Nurse(s) to administer immunizations

• Administrative/all-purpose individual to facilitate paper work, finger sticks and to provide general assistance

• Pharmacist or pharmacist assistant if appropriate Dietitian for nutritional counseling suggested personnel designated for health fairs

Footnotes

1 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation via Reuters Health E-Line.

2 Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, (9/11/03)

3 www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/press/archive/lower_cost.htm

4 “Is Stress Nibbling Away at Your Bottom Line?” By Stephen Alper, Nov. 15, 2002.

5 Health Promotion in the Workplace, Michael P. O’Donnell, page 415.

6 http://www.bmpcoe.org/bestpractices/internal/dayto/dayto_6.html