WELLNESS CULTURE AS A FACTOR OF FORMATION OF WELLNESS-INDUSTRY

Creating a culture of wellness in workplaces.

NC Med J November/December 2006, Volume 67, Number 6 he North Carolina State Health Plan (SHP), a self-funded plan established by the North Carolina General Assembly, provides healthcare coverage for more than 615,000 active public sector employees, retirees, and dependents. Employee members of the SHP work in 225 organizations in approximately 3,000 worksites throughout the state. Seventy perc...

Wellness as fairness.

I argue that distinct conditions of justice lead to diverse wellness outcomes through a series of psychosocial processes. Optimal conditions of justice, suboptimal conditions of justice, vulnerable conditions of injustice, and persisting conditions of injustice lead to thriving, coping, confronting, and suffering, respectively. The processes that mediate between optimal conditions of justice an...

Financial Wellness

A calculation of national wellness.

d d W u t ocrates said of medicine, “This ‘medicine’ this philter, which acts as both remedy and poison . . . This charm, this spellbinding virtue, his power of fascination, can be—alterately or simultaneously—beneficent or aleficent.” The clear implication is that it is not the medication but the choice of how and when to use it, and the social context that leads to its use, that should be con...

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...