Comprehensive well-being in occupational healthcare
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Nutritional therapy as part of occupational health care
The right kind of nutrition helps you to manage your work ability and well-being
More multidisciplinary competence is required to succeed in the effective prevention, early intervention, treatment and rehabilitation of changing work ability challenges. Dietitians work as part of a multidisciplinary occupational health care team, fulfilling the role of an expert of various functional disorders that affect work ability and occupational health, lifestyle and other disease risk factors and their prevention, eating behaviour and food relationship challenges.
Along with other lifestyle factors, nutrition is of key importance when it comes to maintaining health and work ability over the short and long term.
The quality and variety of one’s diet has been found to have an effect on, for example, the following things:
Alertness
Resilience
Occupational safety
Work ability and functional capacity
Recovery from work and quality of sleep
Attention and cognitive functions
Mental performance
Occupational well-being and work engagement
Why is nutritional therapy an important part of occupational health care?
In an increasing number of functional disorders and challenges to work ability, effective multidisciplinary team work also requires the expertise of a nutrition specialist.
Nutritional therapy services enable more personalised, effective and comprehensive multidisciplinary care for employees and work communities.
The inclusion of nutritional therapy services in the agreement is not an additional cost. Instead, it will enable a more multidisciplinary and effective distribution of occupational health care costs among the multidisciplinary occupational health team.
We offer our occupational health customers both Kela-reimbursable services (KL1) and additional services (KL3). Please ask your company’s account manager for more information about these services.
Adding nutritional therapy to the occupational health agreement
You can get nutritional therapy services for your company by adding them to your occupational health agreement. Please contact your company’s account manager.