This presentation discusses challenges with existing workplace wellness practices and trends that will change workplace wellness. It outlines four key challenges putting pressure on current practices: programs are often incentive-oriented which results in low participation without incentives; increased privacy regulations; commoditization of wellness programs; and the perception that lifestyle changes are difficult due to low rates of healthy behaviors. It then describes four trends that will impact workplace wellness: increased use of social media; focus on environmental health; renewed focus on education; and changing demographics. Finally, it lists five things that must happen for Americans to live healthier lifestyles, including focusing on prevention, communication, community approaches, peer recognition over incentives, and engaging children.

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A New Way to Wellness:
Maybe it isn’t a business
strategy after all?

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Wellness Models Focused on
Individual Behavior
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assessment
participation
in wellness
programs
health
behavior
change
health
and
productivity
financial
benefit
Source: Holtyn & Associates

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1% of Population
from High to
Low Risk
= Break Even
on Wellness
Program
Source: Lynch WD. Health and the bottom line: What the evidence tells us. Presented at the Art & Science of Health Promotion Conference.Washington, DC. February 2001.

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4 Key Challenges Exerting Pressure on
Existing Workplace
Wellness Practices

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4 Key Challenges Exerting Pressure on
Existing Workplace
Wellness Practices
1. INCENTIVE ORIENTED
36 employers not using incentives = < 20% participation in
completed HRAs
Anderson, DR, Grossmeier, J, Seaverson, LD & Snyder, D. The role of financial incentives in driving employee engagement in health management. ACSM’s Health
and Fitness Journal, 12(4): 18-22.

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4 Key Challenges Exerting Pressure on
Existing Workplace
Wellness Practices
2. MORE PRIVACY REGULATION
Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA)
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA)

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4 Key Challenges Exerting Pressure on
Existing Workplace
Wellness Practices
3. COMMODITIZATION
Lockstep procedures for data-driven model

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4 Key Challenges Exerting Pressure on
Existing Workplace
Wellness Practices
4. PERCEPTION OF FAILURE
3% of Americans practice all 4 of the basic
lifestyle prescriptions
• Do not smoke
• Maintain a healthy weight
• Eat adequate fruits and vegetables
• Physical exercise
Aldana, SG. 2005. The Culprit & the Cure: Why Lifestyle Is the Culprit Behind America’s Poor Health and How Transforming that Can Be the Cure. Mapleton, UT: Maple
Mountain Press.

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4 Trends That Will Change
Workplace Wellness

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4 Trends That Will Change
Workplace Wellness
1. Mass acceptance of social media

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4 Trends That Will Change
Workplace Wellness
1. Mass acceptance of social media
2. Interest in the environment

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4 Trends That Will Change
Workplace Wellness
1. Mass acceptance of social media
2. Interest in the environment
3. Renewed focus on education

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4 Trends That Will Change
Workplace Wellness
1. Mass acceptance of social media
2. Interest in the environment
3. Renewed focus on education
4. Demographics

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What Has to Happen in Order for
Americans to Live Healthfully

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What Has to Happen in Order for
Americans to Live Healthfully
A. Focus on primary prevention — lifestyles

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What Has to Happen in Order for
Americans to Live Healthfully
A. Focus on primary prevention — lifestyles
B. Communication based

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What Has to Happen in Order for
Americans to Live Healthfully
A. Focus on primary prevention — lifestyles
B. Communication based
C. Wellness as a community concept

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What Has to Happen in Order for
Americans to Live Healthfully
A. Focus on primary prevention — lifestyles
B. Communication based
C. Wellness as a community concept
D. Move to peer-to-peer recognition over big incentives

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What Has to Happen in Order for
Americans to Live Healthfully
A. Focus on primary prevention — lifestyles
B. Communication based
C. Wellness as a community concept
D. Move to peer-to-peer recognition over big incentives
E. Move upstream and engage children

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The secret
formula to
getting
Americans
healthy

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Let’s continue the conversation!
You can reach me at:
Shawn M. Connors, President
Hope Health
350 E. Michigan Ave. • Suite 225
Kalamazoo, MI 49007
sconnors@hopehealth.com
269.343.9322
HopeHealth.com