Insights

State of the Art Health Facility at Mapinga

ImpactAfya is project managing a State of the Art Health Facility at Mapinga Satellite City. A Center of Integrated Medicine offering primary & curative health care, Medical rehabilitation services with complementary medicine for holistic treatment is envisaged. Feasibility studies are in progress. Mapinga Housing Development is located 2 km inland from the highway towards the Indian Ocean and is about

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Employee Wellness Program at Commercial Bank of Africa

ImpactAfya launched the Wellness Program at Commercial Bank of Africa Tanzania with Employee Orientation Sessions on impact of lifestyles on workplace and how our Wellness Programs help. It started with a baseline assessment of Personal Well-Being Factor aggregating to Organization Well-Being Factor. One of the attendees said – “Thank you – this program will save lives – we really need it”.

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Wellness Seminar Series with Dr Tanya Pergola, PhD

ImpactAfya invited Dr Tanya Pergola, PhD in Sociology and Social Psychology and the author of “Time is Cows – Timeless Wisdom of the Maasai” to conduct a series of wellness workshops ranging from yoga and meditation, powerful communication and food and nutrition at workplaces. Fabulous start to the month, with an amazing group of HR and Wellness officers from diverse

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Burnout in Tanzanian Companies

Who wouldn’t want less stress? Stress far too often stops people being effective and makes them feel “out of control”. Even if you have not suffered you’ll have seen its effects. It can seriously affect our health and our work. Employee stress results in rising healthcare costs, absenteeism and increased risk of workplace accidents. Whilst you can’t make stress disappear

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Is Better Health Really a Waste of Time?

We received an overwhelming response to our last newsletter, where we introduced Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) as a major threat to Tanzanian companies. The good news is that there are simple, cost-effective solutions available to prevent and control NCDs – starting with regular physical activity and a healthy diet. Creating this change requires a wellness program that involve employees and change

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Workplace Wellness at Insignia

Ms Bhakti Shah gave a presentation on ‘Wellbeing at Workplace’ to the management team of 21 at Insignia Ltd. She discussed non-communicable diseases and their impact. Participant feedback rated the session as excellent. Stay tuned for our future editions with exciting topics on impact of lifestyle on workplaces and successful intervention strategies Please reply back to me with your feedback and

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Managing your NCDs?

Last week I presented “Lifestyles and Impact on Workplace” to the management team at Insignia Ltd. I was humbled by the great feedback. Participants said the presentation helped them learn how to manage personal health, raising awareness of modifiable risk factors, to bringing positive changes to lifestyle and work productivity. You can download a copy of the slides here. In

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Top 10 Tips for your Wellness Journey

We thank our readers for their comments – From Insignia – “Very interesting information” and from Noesis – “Workplace Wellness is a vital part of business success and better life”. I continually hear from business leaders with the same expectations of workplace wellness: keep employees healthy, productive and happy; allow the company to differentiate itself in a highly competitive marketplace

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Why IBM Creates a Culture of Health

We have received great feedback to our 1st Newsletter -To quote Advocate Jean Paul – “I want to thank you for such informative insight on a very common killer that is almost ignored day in day out in this society. Even though, we know the danger and causes of this deadly disease, very little attention is paid to eradicate or

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