Impacts of Wellness Components on Individuals' Wellness Status for Wellness Convergence Systems

Financial Wellness

Evaluating Information Systems for Collaborative Wellness

We are refining a system for studying Collaborative Wellness (CW) developed by us for use in evaluating knowledge creation and information systems. CW is founded on reaching agreement between stakeholders on ways to address issues arising in complex environments and create the necessary knowledge to address these issues. Such a model is needed in the increasingly complex and dynamic environment...

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.