April Level 1 WellCert Webinar Series (2 days, starting 4/3)

We are conducting Level 1 CWPC Webinar training on April 3rd & 4th! Wed, Apr 3, 2024, 11:00am – 5:00pm Thu, Apr 4, 2024, 11:00am – 5:00pm #employeewellness #corporatewellness #employeewellbeing #wellnessprogram #wellness #workplacewellness #healthcare

WellCert Insight Series #001

#001 How effective are most employee wellness programs? #001 Why care about your own personal well-being? #001 What is your World View?

Changes to Connections Newsletter and CPSTF Recommendations for Workplace

Source: Community Prevention Services Task Force (CPSTF), DHHS Change is Coming! Hello WellCert Graduates! It’s been a very interesting 3 years for all of us!  The COVID pandemic clearly created many new challenges for all of us.  In looking back over the pandemic years and the past decade, the Connections newsletter has addressed more than… Continue Reading ›

Workplace Wellness Programs Produce Health Improvements – The “Proof”

Source: Lancet with funding by NHL&BI What is this about? This edition of Connections newsletter provides a recent major peer review article that is a systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of multi-component workplace wellness programs for dietary habits, overweight and cardiometabolic health. The methodology includes an extensive search of the scientific literature and… Continue Reading ›

Where Your Health Care Dollar Goes – An Infographic

Source: America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) What is this about? This edition of Connections newsletter provides an informative 5-page infographic plus explanatory text describing the typical distribution patterns of commercial health insurance expenditures for 2018 to 2020.  The methodology for the infographic is also described. The top five (5) types of expenditures from commercial health… Continue Reading ›

USPSTF Recommendations for Counselling for Diet and Exercise

Source: United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Recommendation Statement What is this about? This edition of Connections newsletter provides an 8-page article published recently in JAMA from the USPSTF with recommendations for behavioral counselling interventions to promote a healthy diet and physical activity for cardiovascular disease prevention in adults without cardiovascular disease health risks factors.  This… Continue Reading ›

Wellness Programming Tips Before, During and After the Next Pandemic

Source: Chapman Institute and the WellCert Program What is this about? This edition of Connections newsletter provides an 8-page document with recommendations for how employee wellness programs can better protect their employees and family members from a future pandemic threat.  It is based heavily on lessons learned from the recent COVID-19 pandemic. The document is… Continue Reading ›

New USPSTF Recommendations on Dietary Supplements

Source: United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and JAMA What is this about? This edition of Connections newsletter provides a copy of 3 articles and a patient education insert in this week’s online JAMA publications. The 4 articles have been combined into one PDF and include: The USPSTF issuance itself An explanatory article with… Continue Reading ›

The Global Mental Health Disease Burden: 1990-2019

Source: The Lancet Psychiatry What is this about? This edition of Connections newsletter provides a copy of the recent article published in the respected peer review journal The Lancet Psychiatry on the Global Burden of Mental Health Diseases and Conditions and includes nine major mental health diseases/conditions as well as a catch-all category. The authors… Continue Reading ›

Evidence-Based Recommendations on Reducing Obesity

Source: Community Prevention Services Task Force (CPSTF) , DHHS What is this about? This edition of Connections newsletter provides an easy-to-read set of evidence-based interventions for reduction of obesity and overweight status among working adults.  It is a set of formal recommendations from the Community Prevention Service Task Force (CPSTF) within the federal Department of… Continue Reading ›