Sourse: USPSTF and JAMA 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, 2021 an original investigation article was published in JAMA entitled “Trends in Prevalence of Diabetes and Control of Risk Factors… Continue Reading ›
Source: Avidon Health 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 choices. Using a variety of peer-reviewed articles, the authors have constructed a very useful framework for educating senior management and all… Continue Reading ›
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine 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” adult primary care use. The article contains a test of more than 409 specific recommendations representing 178 unique opportunities to… Continue Reading ›
Source: Cigna 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. workforce. The effects of COVID-19 on the resilience of both populations are included and the report uses a survey methodology to establish… Continue Reading ›
Source: National Institute of Health Care Management (NIHCM) 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 tank funded primarily by the Blues. (NIHCM) The data insights provided in this infographic give tangible… Continue Reading ›
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. A summary of current research on COVID-19 is provided along with an overall assessment of the “big picture.” A concluding excerpt is reproduced below.… Continue Reading ›
Source: Lancet Public Health 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 extensive modifiable health risk analysis of U.S.health care costs using a cross-comparison technique on two very extensive claims databases. The… Continue Reading ›
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 Study – N= 73,196 and the Health Professions Follow-up Study – N= 33, 366). These 2 landmark prospective cohort studies are used in this study… Continue Reading ›
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) and New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) 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 with front line practitioners. Now we have two major candidates for that definitive treatment… Continue Reading ›
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 excellent 8-page special section on Navigating the Coronavirus that everybody needs to read. The practical and thoughtful advice presented here is extremely useful. Why is… Continue Reading ›