OBJECTIVE To compare the strength of district wellness policies with corresponding school-level practices reported by principals and teachers. DESIGN District-level wellness policy data were collected from school district websites and, if not available online, by requests made to district administrators in the autumn of 2013. The strength of district policies was scored using the Wellness Sch...

The health cost crisis has spawned a thriving cost-control industry that offers an ever-growing number of “solutions.” The authors of this article encourage employers to go back to the basics in evaluating these offerings, including their wellness policies and programs. This article describes the many ways different employers do wellness, the evidence base for wellness, how employers should tar...

Incidence of pediatric overweight continues to pose significant national health threats due to associated co-morbid, chronic conditions, including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and others. Interventions to address health behaviors of children often focus on the school environment because of the opportunity to have an impact on child health through nutrition education and optimi...

Being healthy is important for living well and achieving longevity. In the business realm, furthermore, employers want healthy employees, as these workers tend to be more productive, have fewer rates of absenteeism, and use less of their health insurance resources. This article provides an overview of corporate “wellness” efforts in the American workplace and the concomitant challenges which em...

Links [1] https://www.uoguelph.ca/hr/policies/back-care-policy [2] https://www.uoguelph.ca/hr/policies/bloodborne-pathogens-policy [3] https://www.uoguelph.ca/hr/policies/confidentiality-employee-health-and-medical-records-policy [4] https://www.uoguelph.ca/hr/policies/consumption-alcoholic-beverages-university-property-policy [5] https://www.uoguelph.ca/hr/policies/employee-assistance-program-...

Links [1] https://www.uoguelph.ca/hr/policies/back-care-policy [2] https://www.uoguelph.ca/hr/policies/bloodborne-pathogens-policy [3] https://www.uoguelph.ca/hr/policies/confidentiality-employee-health-and-medical-records-policy [4] https://www.uoguelph.ca/hr/policies/consumption-alcoholic-beverages-university-property-policy [5] https://www.uoguelph.ca/hr/policies/employee-assistance-program-...

INTRODUCTION In this study, we 1) compared the quality of school wellness policies among schools participating in Moms for a Healthy Balance (BALANCE), a school- and home-based weight loss study conducted with postpartum adolescents in 27 states; and 2) assessed the relationship between policy quality with energy-balance behaviors and body mass index z scores of postpartum adolescents. METHOD...

Modern eHealth, ubiquitous health and personal wellness systems take place in an unsecure and ubiquitous information space where no predefined trust occurs. This paper presents novel information model and an architecture for trust based privacy management of personal health and wellness information in ubiquitous environment. The architecture enables a person to calculate a dynamic and context-a...

BACKGROUND This study sought to examine the relationship between tobacco-free policies at worksites to worksite demographics such as company size and geographic location. METHODS Worksites participating in a worksite wellness workshop were asked to complete a worksite wellness instrument, which provided an assessment of their wellness practices already in place in the worksite, including the ...

A feasibility analysis has been performed to study the applicability of privacy attributes with a developed wellness information model. Information privacy concerns specifically access to individually identifiable personal information and one's ability to control information about oneself. We carried out a user scenario walk-through of the privacy attributes related to the wellness components. ...