OBJECTIVE 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 while protecting employees from discrimination and unaffordable coverage. METHODS The process included reviewing the literature, regulations, case studies, and other resources while developing consensus through numerou...

The Atikamekw Nehirowisiw Nation stands out for its strong culture and proactive policies interventions to ensure the wellness healing of members three communities. As part Kahnawà:ke Schools Diabetes Prevention Project’s Community Mobilization Training study promotion healthy lifestyles, we explored perspectives among community Manawan. This participatory project involved youth, elders, interv...

The purpose of this article is twofold: (1) to announce the findings of the job task analysis as well as national training and education standards for health and wellness coaching (HWC) that have been developed by the large-scale, collaborative efforts of the National Consortium for Credentialing Health and Wellness Coaches (NCCHWC) and (2) to invite commentary from the public. The rapid prolif...

BACKGROUND Impaired physician health can have a direct impact on patient health care and safety. In the past, problems of alcoholism and substance abuse among physicians have received more attention than other conditions-usually in the form of discipline. While patient safety is paramount, the medical profession may be more successful in achieving the required standards by fostering a culture c...

OBJECTIVES We examined how different types of health information-seeking behaviors (HISBs)-no use, illness information only, wellness information only, and illness and wellness information combined-are associated with health risk factors and health indicators to determine possible motives for health information seeking. METHODS A sample of 559 Seattle-Tacoma area adults completed an Internet-...

today, on the contrary of the last ten decades, the necessity of teaching hygienic issues, and caring the children’s health, is pretty obvious. avicenna (10 ac), the famous iranian physician and philosopher, scrutinized the health and hygiene with a deep insight to the matter. he considered the wellness not only as the recovery from the disease, but emphasized the maintenance of health by sugge...

The Indivisible Self, an evidence-based model of wellness, emerged from factor analytic studies based on an earlier wellness model, the Wheel of Wellness. Both models use Individual Psychology as an organizing theory; however, the current model exemplifies holism as the foundation of human wellness. In this article, the Indivisible Self model is described, and implications for counseling and ne...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of a population-based telephonic wellness coaching program on weight loss. METHODS Individual-level segmented regression analysis of interrupted time series data comparing the BMI trajectories in the 12 months before versus the 12 months after initiating coaching among a cohort of Kaiser Permanente Northern California members (n = 954) participating in The Per...

Introduction Burnout, depression, and suicidality among residents of all specialties have become a critical focus of attention for the medical education community. Methods As part of the 2017 Resident Wellness Consensus Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada, resident participants from 31 programs collaborated in the Educator Toolkit workgroup. Over a seven-month period leading up to the summit, this wo...