Category Archives: Human Health

Wellness Wednesday: Emotional Wellbeing Tip – Actively seek out laughter. Surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Try not to take yourself too seriously. Allow yourself to play. Read the funnies.

Wellness Wednesday – Creative Wellbeing Tip: Change mediums: if you typically paint, try poetry. If you like crossword puzzles, try Sudoku. If you typically color with pencils, try markers or crayons.

Wellness Wednesday – Physical Wellbeing Tip: Get your influenza vaccine this week during National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW), December 4-8, 2023. NIVW is an annual observance in December to remind everyone 6 months and older that there’s still time to get vaccinated against influenza to be protected during the 2023-2024 season. Make sure you get an influenza vaccine to protect yourself, your loved ones, and the pigs you care for this flu season.

The Animal Depopulation Resiliency Check-in Tool, a 5-question public health protocol for stakeholders who are preparing for, participating in, and recovering from animal-depopulation, created by AASV and Dr. Elizabeth Strand, is now available in French, Spanish, and English.

Flu viruses can spread from pigs to people and from people to pigs – how do you prevent the spread on your farm? Work with your veterinarian to develop a herd management and vaccination strategy to reduce the spread of the flu and to prevent the introduction of flu viruses between people and pigs.

Wellness Wednesday – Spiritual Wellbeing Tip: Hold ethics discussions that give people the opportunity to talk about difficult scenarios they’ve encountered and how they chose to deal with them.

Wellness Wednesday – Social Wellbeing Tip: When eating lunch with members of the team, refrain from talking “shop” and instead encourage everyone to share fun facts about themselves.

Wellness Wednesday – Physical Wellbeing Tip: Drink AT LEAST half your bodyweight in ounces of water every day (cups of coffee do not count towards this total). The goal is to urinate often and clear. If plain water is too boring for you, try dropping slices of fresh fruit in your (reusable) water bottle.

Wellness Wednesday – Occupational Wellbeing Tip: Determine the Myers-Briggs, DiSC, or Insights classifications or Strengths Profiles for everyone on your team. This will create a better understanding of communication styles and help everyone take responsibility for working together in a positive, considerate way.

Wellness Wednesday – Intellectual Wellbeing Tip: Foster a communal growth mindset in your workplace. This will include grace for learning and making mistakes, and modeling vulnerability in acknowledging your challenges and asking for help.