Best Practice Design Principles of Worksite Health and Wellness Programs

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nico Pronk
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Catherine C. Cohen ◽  
Simon Hollands ◽  
Harry H. Liu

Purpose: To determine whether the use of worksite health and wellness clinics reduced hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) for prediabetic and diabetic employees. Design: Hemoglobin A1c values were compared between clinic users and matched non-users. Setting: The Wonderful Company’s (TWC’s) agricultural and packaging sites in Central California. Sample: TWC’s 2016 to 2017 employees who used clinics (n = 445, defined below) and clinic non-users (n = 217) who had HbA1c screening and worked at TWC for 3 or more months each year. Intervention: A unique worksite health and wellness clinic that offers multidisciplinary primary medical care in synergy with TWC’s overall wellness programs. Measures: Exposure was clinic use, defined by frequency and patterns of visits. Hemoglobin A1c was the outcome of interest. Analysis: Users and non-users were propensity score matched using the 2016 employee data including HbA1c, and then 2017 HbA1c values were compared between the 2 groups. Results: The 2017 HbA1c of diabetic employees was lower among clinic users compared to non-users (7.42 vs 8.53, P < .001). Differences in HbA1c among prediabetics or diabetics and prediabetics aggregated were not statistically significant, despite TWC’s population-level data showing a reduction in prediabetes prevalence. The clinic impact results were robust to multivariate analyses and an alternative definition of utilization. Conclusion: The implementation of TWC’s Health and Wellness clinics was associated with reductions in HbA1c among diabetics, but further research is needed on prediabetics.


2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 501-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham Samuel Babu ◽  
Kushal Madan ◽  
Sundar Kumar Veluswamy ◽  
Rahul Mehra ◽  
Arun G. Maiya

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence P. Cahalin ◽  
Leonard Kaminsky ◽  
Carl J. Lavie ◽  
Paige Briggs ◽  
Brendan L. Cahalin ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 484-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Després ◽  
Natalie Alméras ◽  
Lise Gauvin

2018 ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Mohammad Fikri

Data Badan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Kesehatan (2013), PTM DI Yogyakarta meliputi PPOK (3,1%), Asma (6,9%), penyakit jantung (0,6%), kanker (4,1%), diabetes (2,6%), hipertensi (12,8%) dan beberapa PTM lain yang jumlah kasusnya masih tergolong tinggi pada usia produktif yang bekerja di perusahaan/perkantoran. Mengatasi masalah kesehatan tersebut, program-program baru pun coba dirancang mencegah, mengurangi atau paling tidak mengontrol angka kejadian PTM khususnya bagi para karyawan formal dan informal. Salah satu program yang coba dirancang adalah Worksite Health and Wellness Programs. WHWPs merupakan program kesehatan yang telah banyak diterapkan di eropa dan Asia Tenggara yang memberikan efek positif menanggulangi penyakit tidak menular pada  karyawan. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk melihat seberapa efektif program WHPWs diterapkan di Kantor Pemerintahan Kota Yogyakarta sebagai strategi pencegahan PTM bagi para karyawan. Berdasarkan hasil-hasil penelitian terkait, program WHWPs diterapkan perusahaan diberbagai negara Eropa, Amerika bahkan Asia Tenggara. Salah satunya Perusahaan J&J merasakan manfaat dari program tersebut dengan hasil yang menunjukkan adanya penurunan risiko kesehatan bagi karyawannya dari 87,5% berisiko sakit menjadi 78% pada periode 5 tahun penerapanya. Selain itu, lewat program WHWPs juga mengurangi persentase perilaku sedentary dari 39% menjadi 21 %, mengurangi perilaku merokok dari 12% menjadi 3,6%, hipertensi dari 14% menjadi 6.4%, dan risiko kolesterol dari 19% menjadi 6,2%. Kesimpulanya, program WHWPs sangat baik diterapkan di tempat kerja guna mencegah dan menurukan risiko PTM bagi karyawan dan biaya pengobatan PTM dapat ditekan. Oleh karena itu perlu adanya kerja sama lintas sektor untuk mencapai tujuan positif dari program WHWPs.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Mazur ◽  
Marta Mazur-Małek

AbstractThe aim of the article is to present wellness programs as means leading to the creation of culture of health in organizations. The notion of culture of health is becoming increasingly important for companies as statistics show that the number of health-related work problems is steadily increasing. As a result, labor costs are systematically increasing. To tackle this problem, companies began to introduce health and wellness programs to improve the psychophysical health of their employees. The article includes an overview of the concept of health-promoting company culture. It also identifies factors determining its success among employees, defines factors that limit employee participation and presents good practices for disease prevention through employee-oriented programs. This article is based on a literature review, including both: literature and statistical data available in official data bases. In many cases, research confirms the usefulness of wellness programs in the process of building a corporate culture of health. It also shows factors limiting the usability of such programs, which leads to companies being able to develop and improve.


2011 ◽  
pp. 1880-1891
Author(s):  
Ching-Huei Chen ◽  
Manetta Calinger ◽  
Bruce C. Howard

Design principles are universal and may be translated onto the newest trends and emergent technologies. In this research study, the authors combined the perspectives provided by two sources to create a set of recommended design principles for technology-enhanced learning environments. One source was the How People Learn framework (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 2000). The second source was a series of interviews conducted with pacesetters in the field of educational technologies. With the knowledge gained from these two sources, the authors created our own set of design principles. These principles may be used to guide evaluation, instructional design efforts, or best practice models for exemplary use of educational technologies in the classroom.


Semantic Web ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-97
Author(s):  
Riccardo Albertoni ◽  
Antoine Isaac

The Data Quality Vocabulary (DQV) provides a metadata model for expressing data quality. DQV was developed by the Data on the Web Best Practice (DWBP) Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) between 2013 and 2017. This paper aims at providing a deeper understanding of DQV. It introduces its key design principles, components, and the main discussion points that have been raised in the process of designing it. The paper compares DQV with previous quality documentation vocabularies and demonstrates the early uptake of DQV by collecting tools, papers, projects that have exploited and extended DQV.


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