Source: Chapman Institute Author:  Larry Chapman It’s always surprising to me to find out how few employee wellness programs have a clear set of management endorsed goals and objectives.  No guilt intended!   Often, I find it’s because senior managers never do the work to arrive at a clear consensus on what they want their wellness… Continue Reading ›

Source: Global Wellness Institute Author:  Larry Chapman Few technological innovations have had as much impact on our day to day lives as the Smartphone and the ever ubiquitous screen presence. Unprecedented connectivity to news sources, larger communities of interest, instantaneous contact with family members through text messaging, notifications, reminders, email access, capability of benefiting from… Continue Reading ›

Source: Global Wellness Institute Author:  Larry Chapman Most of us know how difficult it is to lose weight and keep it off long term.  After all, this is the land of the Yo-Yo diet.  It seems that the U.S. is in the center of a “perfect storm” regarding obesity and this edition of Connections provides… Continue Reading ›

Source: Global Wellness Institute Author:  Larry Chapman With the rapid process of change impacting American society and for that matter, all the other developed nations, it seems appropriate to take a quick look at a somewhat edgy look at the future ahead.  This report on Wellness in 2030 proposes trends and events that are likely… Continue Reading ›

Source: Chapman Institute Author: Larry Chapman There are a range of major challenges facing virtually all worksite wellness professionals and programs. After conducting a number of formal and informal surveys and a rather extensive literature search process we have identified approximately 16 major challenges that virtually all worksite-based wellness programs face. In response we have now… Continue Reading ›

Source: JAMA Editorial Author: Larry Chapman HIPAA has been on the health care scene since 1996. It created some often-awkward change throughout our entire health care system when first introduced. Covered entities had new and fairly extensive requirements to protect the health care consumer from unauthorized disclosures of their personal health information. Now 22 years… Continue Reading ›

Source: The Lancet Author:  Larry Chapman Almost every culture in human history has used alcohol in some way. But, what level of alcohol use is considered “safe” or “low risk” for us today? Each nation has adopted somewhat different guidelines for what constitutes a safe or low risk level of alcohol consumption. For Americans, according… Continue Reading ›

Source: American Journal of Preventive Medicine Author:  Larry Chapman Unfortunately, some more bad news!  The health aspects of quality of life of Americans is clearly deteriorating.  This 10-year comparison showed a highly significant erosion of the perceived health-related quality of life ratings from a large national sample of adults (N = 79,402).  People are feeling… Continue Reading ›

Source: JAMA Author:  Larry Chapman The health of the US population is a matter of great importance to our national future.  Few analyses document the patterns, as well as this particular article, does.  This state by state analysis covers the years 1990 through 2016 and includes: Prevalence, incidence, mortality, life expectancy, healthy life expectancy (HALE),… Continue Reading ›

Author:  Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) The field of public health, over the past decade, has been developing and refining a perspective and technical approach to bring a health orientation to what is called the “built-environment.”  This approach encompasses all man-made environments and how we use them and specifically, public health research has… Continue Reading ›