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Chapman Institute now offers a growing library of documents, articles, templates, and statistics that will help advance wellness goals. Use the search box or browse categories below. Some example questions you can answer with these resources:
- “My leadership asked me to figure out how our health plan costs are trending compared to national averages.” – The WellCert Resource Library contains reports that detail health cost growth trends with state-level data. It includes public and private sector data.
- “I am new to wellness. It would help to get a toolkit to help us start a wellness program.” – The WellCert Resource library contains several such toolkits. Pick the one that is best for you.
- “My boss doesn’t believe wellness can actually save us money. I need some kind of scientific study showing that this actually works.” – The WellCert Resource Library contains both individual studies and meta-analysis on wellness ROI.
- “I need some specific resources for injury prevention.” – The WellCert Resource Library contains specialized resources in areas like mental health, injury prevention, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and many others.
- “I need some PowerPoint slides to help me improve my presentation to our wellness committee.” You can find templates for documents and even slides to help freshen up your key presentations.
WellCert Research Service – grads only
WellCert grads, if you can’t find it, we’ll hunt for it so you won’t have to! Use the form on the right to ask questions that aren’t answered with the resources we have on hand.
Make sure you only ask for research that you know isn’t covered in the WellCert Research Library. We’ll offer this service as freely as we can—we won’t limit you to a certain number of questions initially.
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We would love to include your templates, slides, and other resources our WellCert Community creates in our searchable database of wellness tools. Just email [email protected] with your resource, and brief description, and we can see if we can include it in our trove of resources.
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In 2012, the federal government announced over a billions dollars of grants as part of the ACA for various prevention efforts. This article outlines the different grant opportunities as a…
Downloads: 7
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With the surprise 2016 Presidential election results the ACA is likley to be going through change in 2017. The attached document is from the AEI, a well-known conservative think tank,…
Downloads: 8
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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
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This five-page article from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) identifies the main reasons why Obamacare will likely fail to manage health care costs. This article is a clear…
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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…
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This downloadable 906 page PDF copy of the ACA is authorized by the GPO and is searchable. This Law has enormous implications for everyone involved in health plan and wellness…
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This 35 page document is the PDF of the Federal Regulations for June 3, 2013 on the design of wellness incentives that meet the requirements of the ACA. These regulations…
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Summary: This summary of key questions and answers regarding the May 17, 2016 publication of EEOC Final Rules for employers and health plans regarding wellness incentives is an important clarification…
Downloads: 16
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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…
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The ACA introduced a new requirement for employers to include Wellness in their Summary of Benefits and Coverage if the Wellness program pays for health services (like preventive screening). Now…
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This document contains a very useful compendium of U.S. health care cost data up through 2015. Based on national health care expenditure accounting sources, it provides a very useful set…
Downloads: 12
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Recently the federal government released one of the most comprehensive and authoritative chartbooks profiling health insurance coverage, costs and trends for working Americans. This 168 page publication provides one of…
Downloads: 15
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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
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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: 11
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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…
Downloads: 41
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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…
Downloads: 3
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In June 2011, Regina Benjamin, Surgeon General of the United States, released the nation’s first-ever ‘‘National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy: America’s Plan for Better Health and Wellness’’ (truncated as…
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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
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This report shows patterns of prevention spending tied to the Affordable Care Act. The table shows fiscal year spending from 2011-2014 by agency on preventive health. Published: 2014
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This report details the requirements in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that private insurers (including self-funded employers) – with the exception of so-called “grandfathered” plans – cover certain preventive services…
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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
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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
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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
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This report to congress provides details on the prevention activities undertaken by the Department of Health and Human Services. The health of Americans is influenced by where Americans live, work,…
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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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This 9 page PDF explains the status of federal funding for Title IV of the ACA. It details the status of funding for Prevention and Wellness available through federal and…
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Prevention and public health spending have been a moving target with changes from the ACA. This 2013 data table provides detailed spending planning through the 2013 fiscal year on government…
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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
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The 10th anniversary edition of MetLife’s Annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends marks a decade of exploring an evolving benefits landscape from the point of view of employers and employees…
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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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This tool addresses skills that are need to exercise advance directives. For our purposes, the definition of “advance directives” is as follows: “An advance healthcare directive, also known as living…
Downloads: 7
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With the surprise 2016 Presidential election results the ACA is likley to be going through change in 2017. The attached document is from the AEI, a well-known conservative think tank,…
Downloads: 8
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The worksheet can be used to examine the extent to which a particular behavior or health risk factor addressed by your wellness program meets the requirements of the AMSO approach.…
Downloads: 46
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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
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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
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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
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This tool has an example of a Budget for a Large Employee Wellness Program.
Published 2016.
Downloads: 38
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This file contains conditions that are generally recognized as epidemiologically associated with specific lifestyle and health risk factors. The diagnostic codes are from the International Classification of Disease Agreement- 9th…
Downloads: 9
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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
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This 28 page policy brief just released from the NIHCM identifies the way employer health plan coverage is changing in response to the ACA. This article provides a clear set…
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What is this about?
Another major challenge facing all U.S. employers involves estimating the current organizational cost associated with employees who are at work but have an underlying health problem that…
Downloads: 31
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Summary: This summary of key questions and answers regarding the May 17, 2016 publication of EEOC Final Rules for employers and health plans regarding wellness incentives is an important clarification…
Downloads: 16
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This tool is a futuristic scenario about a worksite wellness program. A Futuristic Look at Worksite Wellness: A Morning with Marie.
Published 2016.
Downloads: 22
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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
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This tool contains the terms associated with the design, implementation, management and use of health insurance plans.
Published 2016.
Downloads: 15
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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
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Recently the federal government released one of the most comprehensive and authoritative chartbooks profiling health insurance coverage, costs and trends for working Americans. This 168 page publication provides one of…
Downloads: 15
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The Health Monitor represents a third generation HRA that has the potential to be used for a large number of follow-up interventions, such as those identified in Tool 1-8. The…
Downloads: 16
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: 11
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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
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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…
Downloads: 5
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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: 25
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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
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This tool contains a detailed listing of injury prevention skills. Our definition of “Injury Prevention” is as follows: “The set of skills each individual needs to minimize their personal risk…
Downloads: 4
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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…
Downloads: 3
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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
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Medical Self-Care is an area of health knowledge and capability that addresses the way we consult medical references and use home medical equipment to diagnose and treat minor, self-limiting health…
Downloads: 6
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What is this about?
Employer health benefit costs are headed up again. Estimates range from 6% to 9% or higher annual increases for 2020 renewals. For larger organizations a health plan…
Downloads: 12
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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
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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
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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
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What is this about?
A major challenge for all employers is how to align their health plan design so that it supports wise personal health care choices and wellness behaviors. Historically…
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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
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This tool contains key injury prevention skills and related questions for work, home, vehicular and recreational pursuits.
Published 2016.
Downloads: 2
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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
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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.…
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This 14 page article published in JAMA highlights trends in prescription drug use for adults in the U.S. between 1999 and 2012. This summary data was derived from the National…
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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…
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This 5 page article from the American Journal of Managed Care describes the new perspectives, evidence and future implications for Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID). This article is one of the…
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This particular tool represents a sample of what a vendor report card might include. Each of the performance issue listed in the example can be addressed. One approach would be…
Downloads: 12
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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
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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
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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…
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When planning an employee wellness program it is important to have a good understanding of the physical nature of the work performed by employees throughout the organization and the actual…
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This 52 page report from the CDC entitled “A Framework for Patient Centered Health Risk Assessments” is a valuable set of recommendations. This report is one of the major products…
Downloads: 9
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This tool addresses skills that are need to exercise advance directives. For our purposes, the definition of “advance directives” is as follows: “An advance healthcare directive, also known as living…
Downloads: 7
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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
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The worksheet can be used to examine the extent to which a particular behavior or health risk factor addressed by your wellness program meets the requirements of the AMSO approach.…
Downloads: 46
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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
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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
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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
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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…
Downloads: 6
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This article from the journal Circulation provides scientific justification for the importance of patient-reported health status. This article is one of the clearest statements of the importance of patient reported…
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This resource from the Centers for Disease Control provides a template for an effective Health Risk Appraisal. Use this resource to evaluate your existing HRA, and provide example HRAs to…
Downloads: 19
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Why is this important?
This 9-page article provides concrete proof that the U.S. working population is reporting lower quality of life satisfaction due primarily to health-related factors. Another way of thinking…
Downloads: 16
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This file contains conditions that are generally recognized as epidemiologically associated with specific lifestyle and health risk factors. The diagnostic codes are from the International Classification of Disease Agreement- 9th…
Downloads: 9
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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
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This large health system experience with an HRA provides many useful insights for worksite wellness practitioners. The report reveals that HRA adoption was steady and methodical when supported by health…
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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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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
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This tool is a futuristic scenario about a worksite wellness program. A Futuristic Look at Worksite Wellness: A Morning with Marie.
Published 2016.
Downloads: 22
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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
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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
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This 3 page article offers a novel way to open someone's thinking about wellness - either on the personal level or the organizational level. Written by a Boston-based psychiatrist, this…
Downloads: 27
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This tool contains the terms associated with the design, implementation, management and use of health insurance plans.
Published 2016.
Downloads: 15
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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
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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
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The Health Monitor represents a third generation HRA that has the potential to be used for a large number of follow-up interventions, such as those identified in Tool 1-8. The…
Downloads: 16
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This meta-analysis of relevant scientific literature evaluates the question whether we should trust data individuals give us about their health. Based on our review of a considerable body of scientific…
Downloads: 1
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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
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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
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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: 11
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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
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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…
Downloads: 5
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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
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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
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This tool contains a detailed listing of injury prevention skills. Our definition of “Injury Prevention” is as follows: “The set of skills each individual needs to minimize their personal risk…
Downloads: 4
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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…
Downloads: 1
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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…
Downloads: 41
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What is this about?
This just-released 2 page summary infographic and 57 page full report based on a national sample of 10,000 U.S. employees surveyed in 2019 focuses on their perceptions…
Downloads: 21
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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
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Medical Self-Care is an area of health knowledge and capability that addresses the way we consult medical references and use home medical equipment to diagnose and treat minor, self-limiting health…
Downloads: 6
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This edition of Connections provides a focus on the modifiable health risk factors of young employees. We know a lot about the health risk factors and needs of the older…
Downloads: 14
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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
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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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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. …
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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…
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Summary: This new study documents the excess risk premium (additional annual health costs) associated with 10 modifiable health risks from 7 industries and 223,461 employees covering the period 2007 to…
Downloads: 30
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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
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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
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This is a recently published compendium that highlights new and confirmed behavioral and social science findings that under-gird population health. This 444 page document contains a large number of summary…
Downloads: 9
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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
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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
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Introduction: Estimates of obesity prevalence based on current BMI are an important, but incomplete indicator of the total effects of obesity on a population. Methods: In this study, data on…
Downloads: 7
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What is this about?
This edition of Connections newsletter provides two recent very important articles/studies on our need to address prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes in our working population. In June,…
Downloads: 16
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This tool contains key injury prevention skills and related questions for work, home, vehicular and recreational pursuits.
Published 2016.
Downloads: 2
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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
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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…
Downloads: 10
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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…
Downloads: 12
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Summary: These two new articles from JAMA provide clear epidemiological and clinical evidence regarding our need to further address obesity in all populations. Recent epidemiological evidence places a new urgency…
Downloads: 16
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
Downloads: 11
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When planning an employee wellness program it is important to have a good understanding of the physical nature of the work performed by employees throughout the organization and the actual…
Downloads: 5
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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
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This report by Milliman—one of the most respected actuarial firms in the world—provides their annual index and report on U.S. employer health care costs that is authoritative and very valuable. …
Downloads: 0
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This report from Milliman summarizes the result of a large survey of U.S. employers for employee health benefit cost patterns as of 2013. This data updates employer health benefit costs.…
Downloads: 3
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What is this about?
The document highlighted in this edition of the Connections newsletter is a newly published study from the British Journal Lancet Public Health. The article reports on an…
Downloads: 14
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This tool addresses skills that are need to exercise advance directives. For our purposes, the definition of “advance directives” is as follows: “An advance healthcare directive, also known as living…
Downloads: 7
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With the surprise 2016 Presidential election results the ACA is likley to be going through change in 2017. The attached document is from the AEI, a well-known conservative think tank,…
Downloads: 8
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The worksheet can be used to examine the extent to which a particular behavior or health risk factor addressed by your wellness program meets the requirements of the AMSO approach.…
Downloads: 46
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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
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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
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What is this about?
The document in this edition of Connections is a comprehensive 22-page article from JAMA that provides a great deal of health care cost summary information for the…
Downloads: 27
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This tool has an example of a Budget for a Large Employee Wellness Program.
Published 2016.
Downloads: 38
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This 36 page Health Care Cost Almanac from the California Health care Foundation contains some great slide content. This set of slides can be lifted out of the document and…
Downloads: 4
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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
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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
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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
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This file contains conditions that are generally recognized as epidemiologically associated with specific lifestyle and health risk factors. The diagnostic codes are from the International Classification of Disease Agreement- 9th…
Downloads: 9
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This 28 page policy brief just released from the NIHCM identifies the way employer health plan coverage is changing in response to the ACA. This article provides a clear set…
Downloads: 4
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What is this about?
Another major challenge facing all U.S. employers involves estimating the current organizational cost associated with employees who are at work but have an underlying health problem that…
Downloads: 31
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This tool is a futuristic scenario about a worksite wellness program. A Futuristic Look at Worksite Wellness: A Morning with Marie.
Published 2016.
Downloads: 22
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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
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This tool contains the terms associated with the design, implementation, management and use of health insurance plans.
Published 2016.
Downloads: 15
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This report provides details on government spending on healthcare. Spending through the two principal health entitlement programs — Medicare and Medicaid — accounts for well over a third of U.S.…
Downloads: 0
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This inaugural Health Care Cost and Utilization Report summarizes national trends in health care utilization and cost, focusing on 2009 to 2010. Large quantities of private claims data are needed…
Downloads: 0
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This document contains a very useful compendium of U.S. health care cost data up through 2015. Based on national health care expenditure accounting sources, it provides a very useful set…
Downloads: 12
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Recently the federal government released one of the most comprehensive and authoritative chartbooks profiling health insurance coverage, costs and trends for working Americans. This 168 page publication provides one of…
Downloads: 15
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The Health Monitor represents a third generation HRA that has the potential to be used for a large number of follow-up interventions, such as those identified in Tool 1-8. The…
Downloads: 16
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What is this about?
Author: Larry Chapman. This annual government report of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) provides the most recent and complete summary information on the major health…
Downloads: 9
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: 11
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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…
Downloads: 5
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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: 25
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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
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This tool contains a detailed listing of injury prevention skills. Our definition of “Injury Prevention” is as follows: “The set of skills each individual needs to minimize their personal risk…
Downloads: 4
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What is this about?
This edition of Connections newsletter provides an important article that addresses the potential for disease reversal. Published in an international scientific journal it raises the core premises…
Downloads: 15
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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…
Downloads: 1
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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
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What is this about?
A major challenge facing all U.S. employers is measuring the current status of their Health and Productivity Management (HPM) and the effects of their employee wellness/well-being intervention…
Downloads: 16
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Medical Self-Care is an area of health knowledge and capability that addresses the way we consult medical references and use home medical equipment to diagnose and treat minor, self-limiting health…
Downloads: 6
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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
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What is this about?
These two articles capsulize recent major patterns in U.S. health care costs. The two articles are full of data on patterns and trends in employer health costs…
Downloads: 23
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Summary: This new study documents the excess risk premium (additional annual health costs) associated with 10 modifiable health risks from 7 industries and 223,461 employees covering the period 2007 to…
Downloads: 30
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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
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What is this about?
This edition of Connections provides a recently released special report that uses authoritative sources to document the usual additional health and productivity costs associated with unhealthy lifestyle…
Downloads: 47
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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”…
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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
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What is this about?
Employer health benefit costs are headed up again. Estimates range from 6% to 9% or higher annual increases for 2020 renewals. For larger organizations a health plan…
Downloads: 12
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This tool contains key injury prevention skills and related questions for work, home, vehicular and recreational pursuits.
Published 2016.
Downloads: 2
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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
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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…
Downloads: 10
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This 14 page article published in JAMA highlights trends in prescription drug use for adults in the U.S. between 1999 and 2012. This summary data was derived from the National…
Downloads: 2
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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When planning an employee wellness program it is important to have a good understanding of the physical nature of the work performed by employees throughout the organization and the actual…
Downloads: 5
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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. …
Downloads: 13
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This tool addresses skills that are need to exercise advance directives. For our purposes, the definition of “advance directives” is as follows: “An advance healthcare directive, also known as living…
Downloads: 7
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The worksheet can be used to examine the extent to which a particular behavior or health risk factor addressed by your wellness program meets the requirements of the AMSO approach.…
Downloads: 46
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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
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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
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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
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This tool has an example of a Budget for a Large Employee Wellness Program.
Published 2016.
Downloads: 38
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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…
Downloads: 6
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Why is this important?
This 9-page article provides concrete proof that the U.S. working population is reporting lower quality of life satisfaction due primarily to health-related factors. Another way of thinking…
Downloads: 16
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This file contains conditions that are generally recognized as epidemiologically associated with specific lifestyle and health risk factors. The diagnostic codes are from the International Classification of Disease Agreement- 9th…
Downloads: 9
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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
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This tool is a futuristic scenario about a worksite wellness program. A Futuristic Look at Worksite Wellness: A Morning with Marie.
Published 2016.
Downloads: 22
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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
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This tool contains the terms associated with the design, implementation, management and use of health insurance plans.
Published 2016.
Downloads: 15
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What is this about?
This edition of Connections provides a PDF file full of graphics that can be mined for images for use in briefings about the current status of the…
Downloads: 16
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This primer gives a brief glimpse of available data on health care costs, and summarizes the impact of spending growth on various parts of society. The National Health Expenditure Accounts…
Downloads: 2
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The Health Monitor represents a third generation HRA that has the potential to be used for a large number of follow-up interventions, such as those identified in Tool 1-8. The…
Downloads: 16
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A robust resource on all key health data for the US that a wellness professional would find relevant, the Health, United States series presents an annual look at national trends…
Downloads: 0
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A robust resource on all key health data for the US that a wellness professional would find relevant, the Health, United States series presents an annual look at national trends…
Downloads: 0
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What is this about?
Author: Larry Chapman. This annual government report of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) provides the most recent and complete summary information on the major health…
Downloads: 9
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What is this about?
The document in this edition of Connections is a recent article from the British Medical Journal that uses 2 major American long-term epidemiological studies (The Nurses’ Health…
Downloads: 4
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: 11
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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…
Downloads: 5
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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
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This tool contains a detailed listing of injury prevention skills. Our definition of “Injury Prevention” is as follows: “The set of skills each individual needs to minimize their personal risk…
Downloads: 4
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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…
Downloads: 1
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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…
Downloads: 41
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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
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This report on health benefit trends relies on multiple sources including interviews with health plan actuaries and industry leaders, a review of available surveys and analyst reports, and PwC’s 2012…
Downloads: 2
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Medical Self-Care is an area of health knowledge and capability that addresses the way we consult medical references and use home medical equipment to diagnose and treat minor, self-limiting health…
Downloads: 6
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This edition of Connections provides a focus on the modifiable health risk factors of young employees. We know a lot about the health risk factors and needs of the older…
Downloads: 14
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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
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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
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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
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Summary: This new study documents the excess risk premium (additional annual health costs) associated with 10 modifiable health risks from 7 industries and 223,461 employees covering the period 2007 to…
Downloads: 30
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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
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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…
Downloads: 2
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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
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This is a recently published compendium that highlights new and confirmed behavioral and social science findings that under-gird population health. This 444 page document contains a large number of summary…
Downloads: 9
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This tool contains key injury prevention skills and related questions for work, home, vehicular and recreational pursuits.
Published 2016.
Downloads: 2
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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
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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
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This 14 page article published in JAMA highlights trends in prescription drug use for adults in the U.S. between 1999 and 2012. This summary data was derived from the National…
Downloads: 2
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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
-
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
-
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…
Downloads: 11
-
When planning an employee wellness program it is important to have a good understanding of the physical nature of the work performed by employees throughout the organization and the actual…
Downloads: 5
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
This tool has an example of a Budget for a Large Employee Wellness Program.
Published 2016.
Downloads: 38
-
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
-
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
-
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
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This meta analysis of scientific research and case studies focuses on how wellness programming builds employee motivation to make positive health changes. It covers intrinsic as well as extrinsic motivation…
Downloads: 18
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Summary: This summary of key questions and answers regarding the May 17, 2016 publication of EEOC Final Rules for employers and health plans regarding wellness incentives is an important clarification…
Downloads: 16
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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
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The objective of this publication is to provide guidance regarding appropriate use of outcomes-based incentives as part of a reasonably designed wellness program designed to improve health and lower cost…
Downloads: 37
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Recently the federal government released one of the most comprehensive and authoritative chartbooks profiling health insurance coverage, costs and trends for working Americans. This 168 page publication provides one of…
Downloads: 15
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: 11
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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
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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
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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…
Downloads: 5
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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
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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: 25
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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
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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…
Downloads: 16
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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
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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
-
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
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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
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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This write up from AJHP on the consensus perspective on outcomes-based incentive design that first appeared in JOEM in 2012 adds additional focus and insight. Michael O'Donnell provides additional color…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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This report is part of a series of publications dedicated to providing accessible and useful information and analysis to policy makers and others working to turn the obesity epidemic around.…
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This tool addresses skills that are need to exercise advance directives. For our purposes, the definition of “advance directives” is as follows: “An advance healthcare directive, also known as living…
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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…
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Summary: This call to action from the American Medical Association asks all physicians to actively prescribe physical activity to their patients. The epidemiological evidence is used to justify the recommendation.…
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The worksheet can be used to examine the extent to which a particular behavior or health risk factor addressed by your wellness program meets the requirements of the AMSO approach.…
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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…
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This eight-page article just released from the JOEM identifies the current consensus on the use of biometric testing in worksite wellness programs. This article provides a common perspective on how…
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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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This piece provides a backdrop for considering the value to the community from your worksite wellness activities—specifically their contribution to reducing health disparities. This report to assess disparities across a…
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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…
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What is this about?
The 4-month-old COVID-19 Pandemic has directly affected virtually everyone in the world. The absence of science-based, consensus-mediated, clinical guidelines for its treatment has been a sore point…
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To know what programs, services, and policies are proven to protect and improve health, decision makers in communities, companies, nonprofit organizations, health systems, and at all levels of government can…
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This 47 page PDF defines the scientific consensus on community, school and worksite prevention strategies. This report provides current scientific consensus and thinking on a wide range of preventive activities. …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Why is this important?
This 9-page article provides concrete proof that the U.S. working population is reporting lower quality of life satisfaction due primarily to health-related factors. Another way of thinking…
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This article from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) identifies the current clinical status of the diagnosis of diabetes. This article provides the current state-of-the-art of the diagnosis of…
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This file contains conditions that are generally recognized as epidemiologically associated with specific lifestyle and health risk factors. The diagnostic codes are from the International Classification of Disease Agreement- 9th…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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This tool is a futuristic scenario about a worksite wellness program. A Futuristic Look at Worksite Wellness: A Morning with Marie.
Published 2016.
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This publication provides scientific review of the efficacy of such preventive services. The authors aimed to quantify the benefits and harms of general health checks with an emphasis on patient-relevant…
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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…
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This 3 page article offers a novel way to open someone's thinking about wellness - either on the personal level or the organizational level. Written by a Boston-based psychiatrist, this…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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This tool contains a detailed listing of injury prevention skills. Our definition of “Injury Prevention” is as follows: “The set of skills each individual needs to minimize their personal risk…
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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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Medical Self-Care is an area of health knowledge and capability that addresses the way we consult medical references and use home medical equipment to diagnose and treat minor, self-limiting health…
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This report from the Partnership for Workplace Mental Health’s Mental Health Works is their fourth quarter 2013 report and contains several helpful articles on mental health in the workplace. This…
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This edition of Connections provides a focus on the modifiable health risk factors of young employees. We know a lot about the health risk factors and needs of the older…
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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…
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This report from The Economist provides chronic disease prevention strategies for working populations. This set of strategies for chronic disease prevention is important to worksite wellness programs. The focus is…
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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. …
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This report summarizes the new NIH physician obesity guidelines published in JAMA. This very brief summary report addresses the new recommendations from NIH for PCPs in treating obesity in patients. …
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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…
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Summary: This new study documents the excess risk premium (additional annual health costs) associated with 10 modifiable health risks from 7 industries and 223,461 employees covering the period 2007 to…
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This is a recently published compendium that highlights new and confirmed behavioral and social science findings that under-gird population health. This 444 page document contains a large number of summary…
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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…
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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…
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Introduction: Estimates of obesity prevalence based on current BMI are an important, but incomplete indicator of the total effects of obesity on a population. Methods: In this study, data on…
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This article provides data on the prevalence of obesity by occupation. This data can be used to compare your own organization with national trend data on the prevalence of overweight…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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This tool contains key injury prevention skills and related questions for work, home, vehicular and recreational pursuits.
Published 2016.
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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.…
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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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Summarized findings: Findings and recommendations from this Guide are routinely used in a variety of settings to improve the preventive care that patients receive. This includes the design of employee…
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Full updated 2012 document: Findings and recommendations from this Guide are routinely used in a variety of settings to improve the preventive care that patients receive. This includes the design…
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This 2014 report provides recommendations used in a variety of settings to improve the preventive care that patients receive. This includes the design of employee wellness programs. From the resource:…
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This 14 page article published in JAMA highlights trends in prescription drug use for adults in the U.S. between 1999 and 2012. This summary data was derived from the National…
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Summary: These two new articles from JAMA provide clear epidemiological and clinical evidence regarding our need to further address obesity in all populations. Recent epidemiological evidence places a new urgency…
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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…
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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…
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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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When planning an employee wellness program it is important to have a good understanding of the physical nature of the work performed by employees throughout the organization and the actual…
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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…
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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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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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This tool has an example of a Budget for a Large Employee Wellness Program.
Published 2016.
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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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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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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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.
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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This tool contains the terms associated with the design, implementation, management and use of health insurance plans.
Published 2016.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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This document is the Answer Sheet for Tool 2-7 - Self-Test on Wellness Incentive Design.
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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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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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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…
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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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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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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 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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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…
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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,…
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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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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…
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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…
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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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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. …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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”…
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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).…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Solution Set for Level 1 CWPC Course.
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Solution Set for Level 1 CWPC Course.
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Solution Set for Level 1 CWPC Course.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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
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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
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‘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
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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
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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…
Downloads: 10
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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
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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
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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. …
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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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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…
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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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…
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In 2012, the federal government announced over a billions dollars of grants as part of the ACA for various prevention efforts. This article outlines the different grant opportunities as a…
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With the surprise 2016 Presidential election results the ACA is likley to be going through change in 2017. The attached document is from the AEI, a well-known conservative think tank,…
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Summary: This call to action from the American Medical Association asks all physicians to actively prescribe physical activity to their patients. The epidemiological evidence is used to justify the recommendation.…
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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…
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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
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This five-page article from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) identifies the main reasons why Obamacare will likely fail to manage health care costs. This article is a clear…
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This piece provides a backdrop for considering the value to the community from your worksite wellness activities—specifically their contribution to reducing health disparities. This report to assess disparities across a…
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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…
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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…
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What is this about?
The 4-month-old COVID-19 Pandemic has directly affected virtually everyone in the world. The absence of science-based, consensus-mediated, clinical guidelines for its treatment has been a sore point…
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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
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Why is this important?
This 9-page article provides concrete proof that the U.S. working population is reporting lower quality of life satisfaction due primarily to health-related factors. Another way of thinking…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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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This downloadable 906 page PDF copy of the ACA is authorized by the GPO and is searchable. This Law has enormous implications for everyone involved in health plan and wellness…
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This 35 page document is the PDF of the Federal Regulations for June 3, 2013 on the design of wellness incentives that meet the requirements of the ACA. These regulations…
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Summary: This summary of key questions and answers regarding the May 17, 2016 publication of EEOC Final Rules for employers and health plans regarding wellness incentives is an important clarification…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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This document contains a very useful compendium of U.S. health care cost data up through 2015. Based on national health care expenditure accounting sources, it provides a very useful set…
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Recently the federal government released one of the most comprehensive and authoritative chartbooks profiling health insurance coverage, costs and trends for working Americans. This 168 page publication provides one of…
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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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This 25 page guide from the AMA provides practical ways to meet new HIPAA Privacy requirements. This article is a streamline way to meet the new privacy requirements as of…
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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…
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In June 2011, Regina Benjamin, Surgeon General of the United States, released the nation’s first-ever ‘‘National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy: America’s Plan for Better Health and Wellness’’ (truncated as…
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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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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. …
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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…
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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
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This is a recently published compendium that highlights new and confirmed behavioral and social science findings that under-gird population health. This 444 page document contains a large number of summary…
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This report shows patterns of prevention spending tied to the Affordable Care Act. The table shows fiscal year spending from 2011-2014 by agency on preventive health. Published: 2014
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This report details the requirements in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that private insurers (including self-funded employers) – with the exception of so-called “grandfathered” plans – cover certain preventive services…
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What is this about?
This edition of Connections provides an advanced copy of the proposed changes to the current rules implementing the privacy and confidentiality provisions of the Health Insurance Portability…
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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This report to congress provides details on the prevention activities undertaken by the Department of Health and Human Services. The health of Americans is influenced by where Americans live, work,…
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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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This 9 page PDF explains the status of federal funding for Title IV of the ACA. It details the status of funding for Prevention and Wellness available through federal and…
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Summary: These two new articles from JAMA provide clear epidemiological and clinical evidence regarding our need to further address obesity in all populations. Recent epidemiological evidence places a new urgency…
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Prevention and public health spending have been a moving target with changes from the ACA. This 2013 data table provides detailed spending planning through the 2013 fiscal year on government…
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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…
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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
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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
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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
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This tool addresses skills that are need to exercise advance directives. For our purposes, the definition of “advance directives” is as follows: “An advance healthcare directive, also known as living…
Downloads: 7
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This Word document contains all the tools from the Level 1 CWPC Course Workbook. You have permission to download the document and copy and paste the specific tool you want…
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This Word document contains all the tools from the Level 2 CWPM Course Workbook. You have permission to download the document and copy and paste the specific tool you want…
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This Word document contains all the tools from the Level 3 CWPD Course Workbook. You have permission to download the document and copy and paste the specific tool you want…
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The worksheet can be used to examine the extent to which a particular behavior or health risk factor addressed by your wellness program meets the requirements of the AMSO approach.…
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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
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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
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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
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This tool has an example of a Budget for a Large Employee Wellness Program.
Published 2016.
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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…
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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…
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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
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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
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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
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This file contains conditions that are generally recognized as epidemiologically associated with specific lifestyle and health risk factors. The diagnostic codes are from the International Classification of Disease Agreement- 9th…
Downloads: 9
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This tool is a futuristic scenario about a worksite wellness program. A Futuristic Look at Worksite Wellness: A Morning with Marie.
Published 2016.
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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.
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This tool contains the terms associated with the design, implementation, management and use of health insurance plans.
Published 2016.
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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
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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
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The Health Monitor represents a third generation HRA that has the potential to be used for a large number of follow-up interventions, such as those identified in Tool 1-8. The…
Downloads: 16
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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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: 11
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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
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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
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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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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: 25
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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
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This tool contains a detailed listing of injury prevention skills. Our definition of “Injury Prevention” is as follows: “The set of skills each individual needs to minimize their personal risk…
Downloads: 4
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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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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…
Downloads: 3
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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
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Medical Self-Care is an area of health knowledge and capability that addresses the way we consult medical references and use home medical equipment to diagnose and treat minor, self-limiting health…
Downloads: 6
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Why is this important?
This group of 4 Solution Set documents provides working solutions for some of the most problematic challenges facing wellness professionals. These four documents are intended to be…
Downloads: 4
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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…
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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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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
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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…
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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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
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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
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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
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This tool contains key injury prevention skills and related questions for work, home, vehicular and recreational pursuits.
Published 2016.
Downloads: 2
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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
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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
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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
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‘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
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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
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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
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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
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This particular tool represents a sample of what a vendor report card might include. Each of the performance issue listed in the example can be addressed. One approach would be…
Downloads: 12
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What is this about?
The document in this edition of Connections is a comprehensive 22-page article from JAMA that provides a great deal of health care cost summary information for the…
Downloads: 27
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This five-page article from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) identifies the main reasons why Obamacare will likely fail to manage health care costs. This article is a clear…
Downloads: 8
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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
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This JOEM article by Goetzel et al. is the strongest consensus statement on the general and economic effectiveness of worksite wellness programs to date. This informal consensus statement published in…
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Excellent discussion by Ron Ozminkowski on a broader strategy for economic analysis of worksite wellness programming. This lucid discussion makes the case for using a broader array of economic variables…
Downloads: 28
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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
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What is this about?
This edition of Connections newsletter provides the results of a new large scale multi-employer case study of the “Go365” wellness program with more than 135,000 fully insured…
Downloads: 25
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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
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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: 11
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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
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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
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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: 25
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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…
Downloads: 3
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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
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Medical Self-Care is an area of health knowledge and capability that addresses the way we consult medical references and use home medical equipment to diagnose and treat minor, self-limiting health…
Downloads: 6
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Larry Chapman's meta-evaluation on economic return studies examines 62 peer review articles that report on the economic return and ROI of worksite wellness programs. The average Cost/Benefit Ratio for 25…
Downloads: 11
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Summary: This new study documents the excess risk premium (additional annual health costs) associated with 10 modifiable health risks from 7 industries and 223,461 employees covering the period 2007 to…
Downloads: 30
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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
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This study on the preventable health care costs paid by the State of California provides a clear and rigorous rationale for wellness. It provides key data and methodology for analyzing…
Downloads: 2
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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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.…
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This edition of Connections newsletter provides an important report produced by the well-respected business consulting and analytics company Forrester. The report examines 4 large clients of the…
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This resource provides useful guidelines for conducting economic return and ROI analyses in work settings. This publication helps establish fair standards for how we conduct economic evaluations in work organizations.…
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This Chapman Institute exclusive white paper provides updated 2012 HERO data on the risk premium cost associated with 8 major risk factors. This data is very useful in projecting the…
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This particular tool represents a sample of what a vendor report card might include. Each of the performance issue listed in the example can be addressed. One approach would be…
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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.
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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.
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Harvard School of Public Health and Economics professors performed a critical meta-analysis of the scientific literature on costs and savings associated with wellness and disease prevention programs. The studies authors…
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