Programming

  • 2016 Survey of Workplace Wellness Priorities

    Summary: Virgin Pulse has just released their annual survey of employers (N = 908) and employees (N = 1,818) regarding their priorities for Wellness programming. Topics covered include: • How employers (and employees)…

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  • A Lifetime of Resilience: Cigna 2020 U.S. Report

    What is this about? This edition of Connections provides a recently released, very useful, 80-page report on the level of resilience among U.S children and youth, their parents and the U.S.…

    Downloads: 12

  • Advice for Doctors to Prescribe Exercise

    Here is a practical set of recommendations and advice for physicians to help them prescribe exercise for their overweight and obese patients who want to lose weight. This short piece…

    Downloads: 20

  • AMSO Worksheet Tool L3-2

    This tool is a worksheet that can be used to help you examine the extent to which your program is likely to produce long term behavior change. Using the worksheet…

    Downloads: 56

  • Annual Program Evaluation Survey Tool L1-11

    This tool is a sample of a program evaluation survey that can be used to evaluate a wide range of issues about the effectiveness of an employee wellness program. The…

    Downloads: 79

  • APA 2015 Work and Well-Being Survey

    This 2015 survey from the American Psychological Association (APA) is a national sample of over 1,500 American employees and contains a wealth of data on employee attitudes, preferences and perspectives…

    Downloads: 9

  • Assessing Organizational Readiness for Wellness Tool L2-12

    An organization’s readiness for Wellness and Well-being programming is usually shaped by senior management’s attitudes toward Wellness along with the propensity of the organization’s “culture,” meaning the commonly held set…

    Downloads: 38

  • Assuring Long Term Behavior Change – Crossing the “Chasm”

    What is this about? First, the good news… employer wellness programs have been proven to help people change their short-term wellness behaviors.  Now, the bad news… those same wellness programs have…

    Downloads: 22

  • Budget Example Tool L4-15

    This tool has an example of a Budget for a Large Employee Wellness Program. Published 2016.

    Downloads: 38

  • Cancer Statistics 2018

    Cancer is the second most prevalent cause of death in the U.S. and is vying for number one.  It is also a major source of morbidity for a large portion…

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  • CDC NHWP Health and Safety Climate Survey

    This resource from the CDC provides and excellent template for surveying the health and safety climate of an organization. This survey asks about employee perceptions of work environment, working conditions,…

    Downloads: 7

  • CDC’s Built-Environment Package

    Why is this important? This 12 page infographic-oriented package includes a visual guide, implementation guide and real-world examples of how the environment around our worksites can be modified to support wellness…

    Downloads: 19

  • CDC’s Definitive Recommendations on Immunizations and Vaccines

    What is this about? This edition of Connections newsletter provides the just-released, definitive guidance on all recommended immunizations over the human lifespan for the U.S. population. The recommendations are in two…

    Downloads: 5

  • Concept Paper Tool L3-1

    The workplace is an ideal site for the establishment of an employee wellness program. The many reasons for this are highlighted in this tool and can be used to help…

    Downloads: 15

  • Concept Paper Tool L4-1

    The purpose of this concept paper is to provide an objective overview of the potential associated with the introduction of a Worksite Wellness program within any organization.  The information presented…

    Downloads: 13

  • Consumer Health Education Tool L3-7

    This tool contains a detailed listing of consumer health education skills. Our definition of Consumer Health Education is: “The set of skills that enables the individual to efficiently and effectively…

    Downloads: 25

  • Coronavirus Resource Kit

    What is this about? In this time of unprecedented global quarantine, everyone is rapidly becoming an expert on Coronavirus and this COVID-19 pandemic. New insights on the virus fill our media…

    Downloads: 65

  • Corporate Wellness Services in the U.S.

    Why is this important? This 34 page report provides a concise summary of the size and major characteristics of the corporate wellness services industry in the U.S.    It is important because…

    Downloads: 51

  • Creating a Culture of Wellness Tool L4-8

    Creating a “culture of wellness” in your organization takes a lot of work.  It doesn’t happen by accident or serendipity!  There are a number of strategies that must be done…

    Downloads: 68

  • Data Collection Tool L4-2

    This tool contains a form that was developed in order to help you collect data for both the planning and evaluation of a Wellness program.  Once the data requested in…

    Downloads: 30

  • Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors by State: 1990 – 2016

    Why is this important? This 29-page article includes a great deal of state-specific information about the health status, health risks, life expectancy, premature mortality, and disability burden for a very large…

    Downloads: 15

  • Eliminating Compliance Problems with Wellness Incentives

    What is this about? A major challenge for all U.S. employers is implementing employee wellness programs without triggering any regulatory compliance problems.  Historically, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has…

    Downloads: 17

  • Employee Engagement in the American Workplace

    This very useful report on employee engagement in the American workplace was released in 2017. Gallup developed "State of the American Workplace" using data collected from more than 195,600 U.S.…

    Downloads: 20

  • Employee Wellness Industry Trends for 2020

    What is this about? This just-released 53-page summary report based on a national sample of 92 health insurance brokerage professionals surveyed in 2019 focuses on their perceptions about important trends affecting…

    Downloads: 34

  • Employer and Employee Opinions About Workplace Health Promotion (Wellness) Programs

    This recent peer review article highlights the results of two major national surveys of employer and employee attitudes and opinions about wellness. The JOEM abstract is as follows: "Objective: The aim…

    Downloads: 13

  • Employer Survey on 2021 Wellness Programming Trends

    What is this about? This edition of Connections newsletter provides a PDF file of a 24-page report of a survey of U.S. employers about their current and future plans for health…

    Downloads: 28

  • Evaluation of a Digital Behavioral Counseling Program for Reducing Risk Factors for Chronic Disease in a Workforce

    This open source article summarizes the evaluation of a trial of a digital coaching program in reducing key health risks in improving the incidence of major chronic diseases in working…

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  • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the USPSTF

    This compendium of 9 peer review articles published in this month’s edition of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (January, 2018) provides an in-depth look at the USPSTF. The 9…

    Downloads: 10

  • Fighting Obesity Requires Collective Solutions

    Why is this important? This 16 page report, titled “The Failure of Obesity Efforts and the Collective Nature of Solutions,” surveyed more than 700 clinicians and experts nationwide and then summarizes…

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  • Generational Differences Tool L4-14

    This tool has information that depicts some of the generational differences that exist in every working population and have clear implications for the design and implementation of worksite wellness programs. Published 2016.

    Downloads: 11

  • Genetic Information Doesn’t Lead to Health Behavior Change

    Summary:  This systematic review of the scientific evidence examines the effectiveness of genetic information on health behavior change.  Genetic testing is being increasingly used in a growing number of healthcare settings…

    Downloads: 3

  • Getting Management to be Serious About Wellness

    What is this about? Unfortunately, most employee wellness programs in the U.S. are both under-funded and relatively ineffective.  They also tend to be more tactical in nature with limited strategic or…

    Downloads: 14

  • Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health

    Physical inactivity is now identified as the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality. Physical inactivity levels are rising in many countries with major implications for the prevalence of noncommunicable…

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  • Global Wellness Trends in 2020

    What is this about? Even with the dominating reality of the Coronavirus epidemic in all of our lives right now, this just-released 50-page trend report highlights a global view of the…

    Downloads: 43

  • Glossary of Health Insurance Terms Tool L4-6

    This tool contains the terms associated with the design, implementation, management and use of health insurance plans. Published 2016.

    Downloads: 15

  • Glossary of Wellness Terms Tool L1-1

    This tool is a newly expanded glossary of wellness and health terms. With more than 100 different terms included in the glossary it can be used as a source for…

    Downloads: 12

  • Group Activity Planning Worksheet Tool L1-9

    This tool provides a useful planning aid for the design and planning of group activities. The tool includes key issues that can help assure a successful group activity. There are…

    Downloads: 23

  • Health Promotion in the Workplace – 5th Edition Michael P. O’Donnell, Editor

    This comprehensive resource for anyone desiring to plan, design, implement or evaluate a Worksite Wellness program has been made available for free by it's Editor Michael O'Donnell.  This 721 page…

    Downloads: 31

  • Hierarchy of Results Tool L4-11

    This tool contains a table that provides detail about the various possible results associated with worksite wellness programs. The results are presented in a hierarchy with the most foundational results…

    Downloads: 12

  • HIPAA in the 21st Century

    Why is this important? This 2-page editorial from JAMA is an insightful look at the changing landscape of health data protection. In an era of social media, personal tweets and growing…

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  • How much alcohol is “safe” to consume?

    Why is this important? This 11-page article presents a landmark analysis of the health risks associated with alcohol consumption. This global scientific effort applies meta-analysis statistical techniques to derive greater scientific…

    Downloads: 9

  • How to Calculate ROI Tool L2-10

    This tool includes two detailed examples of how to calculate the Return-on-Investment (ROI) of an employee wellness program using primarily health care cost changes. Example #1 is for situations where…

    Downloads: 55

  • How to Get Honest Answers from Employees in Your Wellness Program

    Employer wellness programs always need honest answers from employees when they complete health risk assessments (HRAs), health surveys and well-being assessments (WBAs).  Honest answers are needed from employees to enable…

    Downloads: 14

  • HRA Interventions Tool L3-11

    This tool contains a large number of possible follow-up interventions from information collected by a well-being assessment or health risk assessment. in addition to general advice about efforts that would…

    Downloads: 13

  • Ideal Health Plan Design Tool L4-7

    The Ideal Health Plan characteristics suggested here are for use in either public or private organizational settings and are appropriate for large, medium or small size employee groups. The Ideal…

    Downloads: 28

  • Ideal Incentive Program Tool L3-3

    This tool provides an overview of what an “ideal” long term wellness incentive program might look like. Short term 3-8 week wellness challenges can be conducted periodically, but the long…

    Downloads: 34

  • Ideal Wellness Incentive Tool L2-5

    This tool provides an overview of what an “ideal” long term wellness incentive program might look like. Short term 3-8 week wellness challenges can be conducted periodically, but the long…

    Downloads: 29

  • IDM Case Study Tool L4-3

    This tool contains an example of an organization with a conventional set of absence and disability benefits. The example below illustrates how the organization can progress from a conventional disparate absence…

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  • Improving the Design of Wellness Incentives

    What is this about? The vast majority of U.S. employer wellness programs suffer from the major challenge of relatively low levels of employee participation.  Typically, less than 50% of eligible employees…

    Downloads: 45

  • Incentive Answer Sheet

    This document is the Answer Sheet for Tool 2-7 - Self-Test on Wellness Incentive Design.

    Downloads: 4

  • Incentive Pay Values Tool L3-12

    There are a large number of different types of possible incentive rewards that can be used in wellness programming. These are often referred to as “pay values.” For our purposes…

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  • Incentive Pay Values with Survey Tool L4-16

    There are a large number of different types of possible incentive rewards that can be used in wellness programming. These are often referred to as “pay values.” For our purposes…

    Downloads: 19

  • Infographic on Mental Health Issues from COVID-19

    What is this about? This edition of Connections provides a very useful summary infographic on the effects of COVID-19 on the mental health of American workers.  It comes from a think…

    Downloads: 37

  • List of Integration Points for Wellness Programs

    What is this about? Most of us know that better-integrated wellness programs achieve more results, both the lower and higher-order results from our Results Hierarchy Solution Set (S3). The challenge all…

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  • Listing of Biometric Measures Tool L2-7

    The file contains some of the key measures that are typical as components of biometric screening and testing in worksite wellness programs. Each biometric measure is identified along with its…

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  • Listing of Helpful Websites on Wellness

    What is this about? A major challenge for worksite wellness program managers is finding the many useful free websites on the Internet that can help with some aspect of the design…

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  • LMS Primer Tool L3-4

    LMS stands for Learning Management System and it's a global term for a computer system specifically developed for managing online courses, distributing course materials and allowing collaboration between students and…

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  • Making Wellness Worth Your While – Wellness Toolkit

    This useful resource developed by the state of Minnesota provides a good source of ideas for wellness programming.  While it is aimed at smaller employers, much of the material is…

    Downloads: 36

  • Master FAQ List Tool L2-2

    The file contains general responses to frequently asked questions that are often raised by key stakeholders about employee wellness programs.  You can augment these answers to suit your own organizational,…

    Downloads: 16

  • Millennial health and wellness perceptions

    This 14 page eReport contains many useful insights to help us address more effectively the health and wellness perceptions of this largest age cohort group in the U.S. population. The advice…

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  • Modular Program Evaluation Tool L3-13

    This tool provides examples of a modular program evaluation approach that can be used with an employer's wellness program. The idea for permanent or on-going program evaluation identified in previous…

    Downloads: 11

  • National Survey on Worksite Wellness

    What is this about? A major challenge for all employers is understanding how other employers are approaching employee wellness.  National data on employer wellness efforts have been spotty at best.  This…

    Downloads: 13

  • New Guidelines for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

    What is this about? The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) have issued a new set of guidelines for the primary prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD). …

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  • New National Guidelines for Physical Activity

    Why is this important? The combined authoritative weight of the federal Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the American Medical Association (AMA) signifies the importance of this national effort. …

    Downloads: 16

  • New Standard for Diagnosis of Hypertension

    On November 13, 2017,  the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) released a new report that recommends changing the clinical parameters for the diagnosis of…

    Downloads: 12

  • Obesity in the Workplace: Impacts, Outcomes and Recommendations

    The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) is the authoritative group that provides guidance to health professionals that serve and care for employee populations in work organizations.  This…

    Downloads: 18

  • Organizational Best Practices for Employee Mental Health

    What is this about? This edition of Connections newsletter provides a important recent JOEM article that suggests a practical approach for examining an employer’s capability and efforts to provide mental health…

    Downloads: 17

  • Organizational Infrastructure for a Wellness Program Tool L1-5

    This tool provides an outline of the administrative structure and processes necessary for successful wellness programming in the worksite. The acrostic ""START"" is used to help provide a basic framework…

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  • Participation Strategies Tool L2-4

    There are a large number of possible strategies that can be used to increase participation levels in your worksite wellness program. This tool describes in detail 12 major strategies for…

    Downloads: 24

  • Personally Navigating the Coronavirus Pandemic

    What is this about? I know we are all pretty sick of the word “Coronavirus”, but this edition’s document was too good to pass up.  The Wall Street Journal did an…

    Downloads: 30

  • Physician Wisdom on Wellness

    Why is this important? This short, 4 page interview is important because it includes some great wisdom from the physician’s perspective about how to help patients (aka “employees”) get on the…

    Downloads: 21

  • Planning Wellness: Getting Off to a Good Start

    This comprehensive source for anyone desiring to plan, design, implement or evaluate a Worksite Wellness program has gone through nine revisions over the years. The book is organized by major…

    Downloads: 40

  • Population Approaches to Improve Diet, Physical Activity, and Smoking Habits – A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

    This scientific research summary from the American Heart Association summarizes effective programming recommendations to improve diet, physical activity and smoking.  The authors state that population-based strategies are crucial complements to…

    Downloads: 4

  • Possible Interventions from HRA and Screening Data Tools L1-8

    This tool contains a detailed discussion of 60+ follow-up interventions that can be implemented from information that is collected through the completion of a Health Risk Assessment/ Well-being Survey combined…

    Downloads: 16

  • Possible Metrics Tool L4-12

    This publication provides an overview of a practical metric framework that can be used to guide the implementation and evaluation of an Health and Productivity Management (HPM) approach. It is…

    Downloads: 12

  • Program Descriptions of Effective Wellness Programs Tool L1-12

    This tool provides a description of 10 employer programs that have earned the prestigious C.Everett Koop awards. This is the highest honor that can be awarded to employers for their…

    Downloads: 29

  • Program Design Worksheet Tool L1-13

    This worksheet is to be used to help you plan and organize the various activities you are considering for your worksite wellness program. The worksheet uses the 6 step program…

    Downloads: 46

  • Program Planning Checklist Tool L1-10

    This tool provides a checklist organized around set time intervals before and after your program's launch. The questions are structured to help cover all the supportive environment issues around the…

    Downloads: 22

  • Promising and Best Practices in Total Worker Health – Workshop Summary

    This discussion summary piece from a National Academy of Sciences workshop shows how the occupational health community views wellness. The report provides highlights of how NIOSH sees “wellness” as a…

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  • Proposal for Wellness Program Redesign

    What is this about? Unfortunately, most employee wellness programs in the U.S. need to be redesigned for greater effectiveness, but few wellness coordinators know how to make a simple redesign proposal…

    Downloads: 33

  • Recommendations for Low-Cost Wellness Resources

    What is this about? Budget is usually a major challenge for most employee wellness programs.  Since employee wellness and well-being programs are completely discretionary or “optional” in terms of management decision-making…

    Downloads: 19

  • Reducing Metabolic Syndrome through a Wellness Intervention

    This recently published article in JOEM presents the findings of a 1 year program focused on the reduction of metabolic syndrome risk among a health plan employee population. The aim of…

    Downloads: 11

  • Reducing Unnecessary Primary Care Use: Less is Really More

    What is this about? This edition of Connections provides a recently published article that gives us a practical and systematic methodology and set of recommendations to reduce low value or “unnecessary”…

    Downloads: 16

  • Results from Wellness combined with a CDHP

    A just published article in JOEM that presents the findings of a 5 year strategy combining a targeted well-being improvement strategy along with a full replacement Consumer-Driven Health Plan (CDHP).…

    Downloads: 12

  • Results Hierarchy Tool L3-5

    This tool consists of a table that provides detail about the various possible results associated with worksite wellness programs. The results are presented in a hierarchy with the most foundational…

    Downloads: 13

  • Sample Launch Letter Tool L1-7

    This tool is a sample of a formal launch letter that announces a new wellness program for employees. The major components of a launch letter or email include: sent out…

    Downloads: 24

  • Sample Wellness Program Budget Tool L2-8

    The file contains a sample budget developed as part of the National Healthy Worksite Program sponsored by the CDC and established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of…

    Downloads: 35

  • Sample Wellness Proposal Tool L4-10

    The tool is a draft proposal is for a state-of-the-art employee wellness program for a company with approximately 18,000 employees.  This proposal can be modified and edited more extensively for…

    Downloads: 47

  • Short Primer on Wellness Program Evaluation

    This 30 page document provides a quick and efficient look at key issues in program evaluation of worksite wellness and health promotion programs.  It includes discussion of a number of…

    Downloads: 26

  • Solution set #1 – Quick Management Survey

    Why is this important? This 1 page quick management survey is designed to be given to all senior managers to help you derive a clear consensus on what your executive decision-makers…

    Downloads: 5

  • Solution Set #2 – Worker Health Cost Worksheet

    I have a vivid memory of sitting across from the CEO of a company with 18,000+ employees after I had asked him how much he was spending per year on…

    Downloads: 12

  • Solution Set #3 – Wellness Program Results Hierarchy

    Ever find yourself wondering what results people actually expect from an employee wellness program?  Over the years I have had lots of conversations trying to nail this issue down with…

    Downloads: 22

  • Solution Set #4 – Draft Program Evaluation Plan

    What is this about? Author:  Larry Chapman. One of the toughest challenges wellness professionals face is planning an evaluation of their wellness program. It’s a hard thing to do because evaluation…

    Downloads: 27

  • Solution Set #5 – Strategies for Boosting Participation

    What is this about? The vast majority of U.S. employer wellness programs suffer from the major challenge of relatively low levels of employee participation.  Typically, below 60% of eligible employees and/or…

    Downloads: 13

  • Solution Set S1 Quick Senior Management Survey on Wellness

    Solution Set for Level 1 CWPC course. Why is this important? This 1-page quick management survey is designed to be given to all senior managers to help you derive a clear consensus…

    Downloads: 18

  • Solution Set S2 Worker Health Cost Worksheet

    Solution Set for Level 1 CWPC Course.

    Downloads: 0

  • Solution Set S3 Results Hierarchy for Your Employee Wellness Program

    Solution Set for Level 1 CWPC Course.

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  • Solution Set S4 Draft Program Evaluation Plan

    Solution Set for Level 1 CWPC Course.

    Downloads: 3

  • State of American Well-Being

    The 2013 State of American Well-Being study contains extensive community, state and congressional district data on American wellness.  You can use this data to provide comparisons between your population’s data…

    Downloads: 4

  • Strategies for Optimizing Results Tool L2-11

    This tool contains a more detailed discussion of the 10 major strategies for optimizing the results and return from your employee wellness program. For each of the 10 major strategies…

    Downloads: 24

  • Study on Key Success Factors for Employee Wellness Program

    Summary: This study from JOEM identifies key success factors of corporate wellness programs that are associated with creating a culture of wellness. Objective: The aim of the study was to identify…

    Downloads: 15

  • Summary of the Benefits of Wellness Tool L1-3

    This tool includes a summary of the various types of benefits associated with worksite wellness programs. The tool emphasizes the benefits from the vantage point of the individual, employer, community…

    Downloads: 9

  • Summary of the Characteristics of Wellness Program Model Tool L1-4

    This tool summarizes the various attributes associated with the three major wellness strategies or program models: the Feel Good Wellness model, the Traditional Wellness model and the Results-Driven Wellness model.…

    Downloads: 21

  • Technology Infrastructure for Wellness Programs Tool L1-6

    This tool identified the various virtual interventions that constitute the core of an employee wellness programs. This technology is designed to perform all the basic functions of effective wellness programs.…

    Downloads: 17

  • Text Messaging in Wellness

    ‘Mobile’ is old news. With mobile devices going from a curiosity to a virtual appendage for most workers in the 10 years since the launch of the iPhone, it is…

    Downloads: 7

  • The CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard

    The CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard (HSC) is a tool designed to help employers assess whether they have implemented evidence-based worksite health promotion and wellness interventions or strategies in their worksites…

    Downloads: 22

  • The Future of Public Health

    Summary: This summary article originally presented at the prestigious Shattuck Lecture at the Massachusetts Medical Society, by the Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and provides a…

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  • The impacts of injury at the individual, community and societal levels: a systematic meta-review

    This excellent review of the impact of injuries on individuals, employers and society outlines the best studies that have been conducted to date on the impact of injuries.  This material…

    Downloads: 2

  • Tips for Using Self Service Technology Tool L2-6

    This tool provides a number of tips and suggestions for getting the most benefit out of the major forms of self-service technology that are often used in employee wellness programs.…

    Downloads: 6

  • Updated HERO Data Tool L4-9

    The Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO), a Birmingham, Alabama based non-profit corporation, maintains a multi-employer health risk and health cost database.  This database has been used to provide invaluable insights…

    Downloads: 10

  • Viewpoint on Health Literacy

    This recently published article from JAMA highlights the significance and key implications of the growing problem of health literacy. The National Academy of Sciences has also published a series of…

    Downloads: 3

  • WebMD – 2015 Wellness Incentives Workbook

    This 2015 edition of a helpful resource on wellness incentive design and implementation includes a step-by-step approach to smart incentive strategies, best practices, complying with healthcare reform requirements, and how…

    Downloads: 33

  • Well-Being by the Decades

    This 2015 technical paper was written by Fran Melmed, founder, context communication consulting, for Virgin Pulse.  A helpful explanation of generation-related characteristics in communication styles and dynamics. In this piece, they…

    Downloads: 3

  • Wellness 2030: A Look at the Future of Wellness

    Why is this important? This Report, from a group that has a history of several serious efforts at examining more of a global and futuristic view of wellness, provides an organizing…

    Downloads: 24

  • Wellness Case Study

    This white paper summarizes the one, two and three-year outcomes of one large employer with a well-designed, well implemented wellness program. This paper is based entirely on peer-reviewed, scientific evidence. …

    Downloads: 30

  • Wellness Challenge Case Study

    This 8 year case study of an employee wellness program provided by HealthForce Partners of Bothell, Wa to the Everett Clinic of Everett, WA for 1,800+ employees produced a flat…

    Downloads: 12

  • Wellness Challenge Case Study – The Everett Clinic

    These case study highlights portray a successful wellness program in a multi-specialty, multi-site clinic in Western Washington.  Key evaluation dashboard findings are highlighted and case details are provided.

    Downloads: 4

  • Wellness in an Age of Smartphones

    Why is this important? This 32 page report from the Global Wellness Institute and staff at the Mayo Clinic exposes the cautionary tale associated with the mis-use or inappropriate use of…

    Downloads: 7

  • Wellness Interest Survey Tool L1-2

    This tool is a wellness interest survey that can be used to help plan a worksite wellness program. It contains a range of questions on representativeness, wellness interests, program preferences,…

    Downloads: 36

  • Wellness Metrics Tool L2-9

    The file contains the major organizational goals and recommended metrics for use in a wellness program management dashboard. These are organized around the constructs of productivity, cost reduction and program…

    Downloads: 29

  • Wellness Programming after COVID-19

    What is this about? The document in this edition of Connections is the latest Solution Set and addresses options and alternatives for how wellness professionals might modify their programs after COVID-19. …

    Downloads: 13

  • Wellness Programming and Preventive Service Use

    Introduction: There is little research at the national level on access to employee wellness programs and the use of preventive care services. This study examined the use of seven preventive…

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  • Wellness Programming Tips Before, During and After the Next Pandemic

    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…

    Downloads: 22

  • What’s New in Obesity Management?

    This 13 page Review article provides an excellent overview of the medical issues in understanding obesity and its management. With more than 2/3 rds of Americans over the age of…

    Downloads: 28

  • Why Sleep Really Matters

    This 101 page Report authored by the staff of the Rand Corporation office in Cambridge, UK provides a multi-country analysis of the economic costs associated with insufficient sleep.  The report…

    Downloads: 16

  • Wisconsin Worksite Wellness: 2010 – Wellness Toolkit

    This useful resource developed by the state of Wisconsin provides a good source of ideas for wellness programming.  While it is aimed at smaller employers, much of the material is…

    Downloads: 4

  • Work Healthy Georgia – Worksite Wellness Toolkit

    This useful resource developed by the state of Georgia provides a good source of ideas for wellness programming.  While it is aimed at smaller employers, much of the material is…

    Downloads: 11

  • Working on Wellness – Worksite Wellness Toolkit

    This useful resource developed by the state of Massachusetts provides a good source of ideas for wellness programming.  While it is aimed at smaller employers, much of the material is…

    Downloads: 27

  • Workplace Wellness Programs Produce Health Improvements – The “Proof”

    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…

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  • Workplace Wellness Programs Produce Health Improvements: The Scientific Evidence

    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…

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  • Worksite Wellness Toolkit – State of Nevada

    This useful resource developed by the state of Nevada provides a good source of ideas for wellness programming.  While it is aimed at smaller employers, much of the material is…

    Downloads: 6