Frequently Asked Question: What is a health promotion program (HPP) and how does it differ from an employee assistance program (EAP)?
A health promotion program’s main concern is “health promotion and preventative medicine rather than treatment,” which is the focus of an EAP (The Corporate Ethics Monitor, Volume 1, Issue 3, page 41). An HPP tends to “employ different professionals [than an EAP]: recreation therapists, vocational counsellors and nutritionists as distinct from psychologists, social workers and