Circular Rhythms of Wellness

Financial Wellness

From Tweets to Wellness: Wellness Event Detection from Twitter Streams

Social media platforms have become the most popular means for users to share what is happening around them. The abundance and growing usage of social media has resulted in a large repository of users’ social posts, which provides a stethoscope for inferring individuals’ lifestyle and wellness. As users’ social accounts implicitly reflect their habits, preferences, and feelings, it is feasible f...

Health and Wellness Policy Ethics

This perspective is an ethical brief overview and examination of “wellness” policies in the modern workplace using practical examples and a general application of utilitarianism. Many employers are implementing policies that provide incentives to employees who lead a “healthy” lifestyle. The authors address how these policies could adversely affect “non-healthy” employees. There are a wide vari...

Wellness at the worksite.

Prevention, preparedness, and wellness.

Iwould like to take this opportunity in this final issue of 2009 to underscore the insightful observations made by the newly appointed Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Dr Nicole Lurie, in recognizing the essential links between prevention, wellness, and preparedness. It is generally known and widely accepted that even though the United States spends more than $2 trillion annua...