Notes The use and promotion of wellness programs, by health insurers and others, has been increasing. The Commonwealth Fund Issue Brief looks at the experience in Germany where participation in such programs almost doubled between 2004 and 2008, reaching one-quarter of the publicly insured population. An evaluation of one large wellness program there found that it reduced costs. Population-leve...

OBJECTIVES Health Risk Appraisals (HRAs) have been implemented in a variety of settings, however few studies have examined the impact of computerized HRAs systematically in primary care. The study aimed at the development and pilot testing of a novel, comprehensive HRA tool in primary care practices. METHODS We designed, implemented and pilot tested a novel, web-based HRA tool in four pair-ma...

OBJECTIVE To design, develop and prototype clinical dashboards to integrate high-frequency health and wellness data streams using interactive and real-time data visualisation and analytics modalities. MATERIALS AND METHODS We developed a clinical dashboard development framework called electronic healthcare data visualization (EHDViz) toolkit for generating web-based, real-time clinical dashbo...

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...

Wellness and wellbeing are terms found in a broad range of literature such as economics, social science, food marketing and general social commentary. These terms are often used in contexts which encompass mental, physical and emotional health as well as broader more esoteric aspects of life satisfaction such as happiness. The terms wellness and wellbeing are also used ubiquitously and variably...

This paper describes the Sport and Wellness Ecosystem, which is a comprehensive environment including many traditional sport-related researchers, manufacturers and service providers, as well as many new players from other ecosystems, such as personal wellness, fitness and healthcare. This ecosystem uses a seamless data chain to link all the participants. The overall target is to create many new...

Transportation workers, who constitute a large sector of the workforce, have worksite factors that harm their health. Worksite wellness programs must target this at-risk population. Although physical activity is often a component of worksite wellness logic models, we consider it the cornerstone for improving the health of mass transit employees. Program theory was based on in-person interviews ...

OBJECTIVE The research objective was to test the hypothesis that corporate health and wellness contributed positively to South African companies' financial results. METHODS The past share market performance of eligible healthy companies, based on Discovery's Healthy Company Index, was tracked under three investment scenarios and compared with the market performance on the basis of the JSE FTS...

P eople often think about wellness in terms of physical health — nutrition, exercise, weight management, etc., but it is so much more. Wellness is a holistic integration of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being, fueling the body, engaging the mind, and nurturing the spirit (1). Although it always includes striving for health, it’s more about living life fully (1), and is “a lifestyle and a...

regarding prevention and wellness promotion services for the behavioral health care accreditation program. These new standards become effective January 1, 2013. It is important to note that the new standards address only those prevention and wellness promotion services that are community-based, such as depression screening, suicide prevention, and substance abuse prevention. Prevention and well...