Cost Reduction Without Employer Investment 2010RobertTwaddell
The document summarizes a grant program to help organizations implement employee wellness programs. It discusses assessing employee health risks, providing health coaching and workshops, measuring biometrics, and creating wellness plans to reduce costs from risks like stress, smoking, and obesity. The grant provides no-cost resources to employers to improve workforce health and productivity through a holistic wellness approach.
Starting Your Corporate Wellness Program: Ideas and Compliance for HR Prosbenefitexpress
Review all of the requirements that an employer must follow to offer a valid wellness plan. In addition, learn the new rules released by the EEOC for wellness programs under ADA and GINA.
The document summarizes a grant program to help organizations implement wellness programs for employees. It discusses assessing health risks, providing wellness workshops and coaching, and measuring outcomes to improve employee health and reduce costs. The grant provides these services at no cost to employers to help them design effective wellness benefit plans.
Marilyn Guthrie (REI) at Consumer Centric Health, Models for Change '11HealthInnoventions
The document summarizes REI's current approach to employee health and benefits and their desired future state for a more consumer-centric model. Currently, REI offers generous health plans but takes a passive approach to benefits with little employee engagement. Going forward, REI wants to implement a comprehensive wellness strategy with metrics tracking, incentives for healthy behaviors, leadership promotion of health, and a "health concierge" to help employees navigate care. The goal is improved employee health, productivity and reduced healthcare costs.
The document summarizes the results of a 2010 survey on workplace wellness benefits. Some key findings include: over 60% of employers plan to increase employee healthcare costs in 2011; over 50% find wellness programs help control insurance costs; and around 70% currently offer or are considering wellness programs primarily to improve employee health and reduce absenteeism/costs. Common wellness offerings include health assessments, weight management, and newsletters. Participation rates remain a challenge, with around 75% of programs engaging 50% or fewer employees.
The document provides answers to frequently asked questions about final wellness regulations. It defines different types of wellness programs such as participatory, activity-only, and outcome-based programs. It addresses questions about timing of incentive awards, reasonable alternatives, calculating incentives, and applicability of incentives to new hires. Key points covered include that incentives must generally be awarded in the year standards are met, incentives are based on full employee coverage costs, and new hires can receive prorated incentives for the time enrolled. The document clarifies various aspects of implementing compliant wellness programs under final regulations.
This program is now what we have installed for clients to help take control of their health insurance costs. This program sheds light on the true drivers of health care costs.
This document will explain how a comprehensive wellness program works and how much money you should budget in order to have one. If you are ready to kick start health in your organization this is the right place to start.
Cost Reduction Without Employer Investment 2010RobertTwaddell
The document summarizes a grant program to help organizations implement employee wellness programs. It discusses assessing employee health risks, providing health coaching and workshops, measuring biometrics, and creating wellness plans to reduce costs from risks like stress, smoking, and obesity. The grant provides no-cost resources to employers to improve workforce health and productivity through a holistic wellness approach.
Starting Your Corporate Wellness Program: Ideas and Compliance for HR Prosbenefitexpress
Review all of the requirements that an employer must follow to offer a valid wellness plan. In addition, learn the new rules released by the EEOC for wellness programs under ADA and GINA.
The document summarizes a grant program to help organizations implement wellness programs for employees. It discusses assessing health risks, providing wellness workshops and coaching, and measuring outcomes to improve employee health and reduce costs. The grant provides these services at no cost to employers to help them design effective wellness benefit plans.
Marilyn Guthrie (REI) at Consumer Centric Health, Models for Change '11HealthInnoventions
The document summarizes REI's current approach to employee health and benefits and their desired future state for a more consumer-centric model. Currently, REI offers generous health plans but takes a passive approach to benefits with little employee engagement. Going forward, REI wants to implement a comprehensive wellness strategy with metrics tracking, incentives for healthy behaviors, leadership promotion of health, and a "health concierge" to help employees navigate care. The goal is improved employee health, productivity and reduced healthcare costs.
The document summarizes the results of a 2010 survey on workplace wellness benefits. Some key findings include: over 60% of employers plan to increase employee healthcare costs in 2011; over 50% find wellness programs help control insurance costs; and around 70% currently offer or are considering wellness programs primarily to improve employee health and reduce absenteeism/costs. Common wellness offerings include health assessments, weight management, and newsletters. Participation rates remain a challenge, with around 75% of programs engaging 50% or fewer employees.
The document provides answers to frequently asked questions about final wellness regulations. It defines different types of wellness programs such as participatory, activity-only, and outcome-based programs. It addresses questions about timing of incentive awards, reasonable alternatives, calculating incentives, and applicability of incentives to new hires. Key points covered include that incentives must generally be awarded in the year standards are met, incentives are based on full employee coverage costs, and new hires can receive prorated incentives for the time enrolled. The document clarifies various aspects of implementing compliant wellness programs under final regulations.
This program is now what we have installed for clients to help take control of their health insurance costs. This program sheds light on the true drivers of health care costs.
This document will explain how a comprehensive wellness program works and how much money you should budget in order to have one. If you are ready to kick start health in your organization this is the right place to start.
Paradigm Health Plans was established in 2007 with a goal of improving employee health and reducing costs. It has grown rapidly and now has offices across the US. The document discusses Paradigm's belief that health plans must provide adequate coverage without sacrificing care quality. It outlines Paradigm's Lifestyle-for-Life program which identifies at-risk individuals and addresses their needs through benefits and clinical support. The Member Advantage Program (MAP) provides benefits education and assistance to ensure members understand and utilize their coverage fully.
Nationwide has a comprehensive internal health and productivity program called "My Health" that integrates various health services and incentives to encourage associate participation. The program relies on trusted relationships and continual outreach to help associates improve their health. It has led to increased health assessment completion, program enrollment and participation as well as decreased disability durations and costs.
This document discusses employee wellness programs in India as a strategy to address the growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). It provides an overview of the NCD burden in India and the rationale for implementing wellness programs in the workplace. The key benefits of workplace wellness programs for both employees and employers are described. A strategic approach and model for developing successful programs that address leadership, culture, people and processes is outlined. The importance of monitoring and evaluation is also emphasized. The document summarizes a joint World Economic Forum and WHO meeting that discussed barriers and opportunities for workplace wellness programs in India.
Reducing Health Insurance Costs The Year Aheadcheryllagun
The document discusses strategies for lowering healthcare costs in 2009. It notes that healthcare costs have been rising faster than inflation for several years. However, companies can take steps now to reduce costs for 2009 by implementing effective employee health and wellness programs. Such programs have been shown to generate a return of $2.50-$5.81 for every dollar spent by increasing productivity, lowering absenteeism and medical costs. The key is to create programs that engage employees and encourage real behavioral changes through incentives and accountability. Measuring outcomes is also important to demonstrate savings to insurance providers.
The document discusses how the Affordable Care Act amended HIPAA to allow employers to offer premium discounts of up to 30% to employees who participate in wellness programs. It provides an overview of how HIPAA regulates wellness programs and premium discounts. For a program to be HIPAA compliant, it must meet 5 requirements - the reward cannot exceed 30% of the cost of single coverage, it must be reasonably designed to promote health, it must allow yearly opportunities to qualify, and it must offer reasonable alternatives for individuals who cannot meet the standard due to a medical condition. The document also discusses how wellness programs intersect with the ADA and age discrimination laws.
Worksite Wellness: Small Steps to Healthier Employeesszapp
Many chronic health problems are caused by unhealthy, modifiable risk factors. Learn the importance of a health lifestyle and how implement a healthy behavior change program within your workplace.
The document discusses Advantage Workplace Wellness (AWW), an innovative digital health and wellness program. AWW promotes wellness in the workplace through technology-integrated programs that foster behavioral changes, measure health outcomes, and reduce costs. AWW's personalized wellness coaching and resources are accessible online 24/7. Evaluation of health metrics shows AWW programs lower medical and absenteeism costs, providing a 30% return on investment. The document advocates for wellness programs as a necessity to contain healthcare expenses and improve productivity.
United States businesses lose over $576 billion annually due to employee illness, with 450 million additional days of work missed due to conditions like obesity and chronic diseases. Poor health risks and behaviors account for 80% of costs for chronic illnesses, including smoking, poor diet, lack of exercise, and more. Implementing workplace wellness programs and policies targeting three health risks can save employers as much as $700 per employee per year through lower insurance costs, less absenteeism, and increased productivity and morale among healthier employees.
What effects are wellness programs having on the workforce and healthcare in general? With 76% of employers offering some form of wellness program, resource, or service to employees last year, how much has this changed over the years, and what has worked?
The latest infographic from the Healthcare Trends Institute demonstrates the effects of wellness programs, the most popular incentive-based health improvement programs, the importance of proper design in wellness, and future improvements that employers can expect in coming years.
Vigor Source provides wellness consulting services to help companies establish wellness programs. Their services include staffing wellness teams, collecting health data, creating wellness plans and choosing interventions. Partnering with Vigor Source can boost a company's bottom line by reducing healthcare costs and increasing productivity. On average, their clients see a 28% reduction in sick leave, 26% reduction in health costs, and 30% reduction in workers compensation claims. Their goal is to enhance employee and corporate well-being through health risk reduction and promotion of fitness.
The proposed regulations clarify rules around workplace wellness programs under the Affordable Care Act and HIPAA. They allow rewards of up to 30% of health coverage costs (50% for tobacco cessation programs) and require programs to be reasonably designed to promote health and available to all employees through alternative standards or waiver for those unable to meet initial standards due to health factors. Programs must provide notice of alternative means to earn rewards. Participatory programs like fitness center memberships need not comply if they do not discriminate based on health status.
The document summarizes a webinar on leveraging value-based benefit design to improve member health outcomes and lower costs. It introduces the panelists, who are experts from health plans that have implemented value-based benefit designs. It defines value-based benefit design and provides examples from early adopters, such as tiered benefit structures and lessons learned around member and provider communication and engagement. The document concludes by inviting participants to ask questions.
Bill King's Vistage Presentation Healthcare ReformDouglasMcQueen
The document provides an overview of how the Affordable Care Act affects health plans and employers. It discusses provisions for grandfathered and new plans, including required coverage of preventive care and adult children up to age 26. It also outlines new regulations and taxes such as prohibitions on lifetime limits, requirements to offer coverage to full-time employees or pay penalties, and a 40% tax on high-cost plans.
Five years in, and the Affordable Care Act continues to command conversation in the benefits landscape. Industry players are still scrambling to implement new provisions, keep healthcare costs down, create infrastructure to support new reporting requirements, and develop new payer, provider and care delivery models.
This has, in turn pushed the respective hands of health plans, who have had to change their strategies to fit both the consumerization of insurance and the standards set forth under the ACA.
With end-users in the forefront, health plans must take the strategy implemented 15 years ago with the rise of the internet, and push the marketing and communication initiatives into overdrive to gain and retain customers.
Health plans are shifting their mentality and communication, ant the best of the best are putting time, money, and energy into literacy and new business initiatives.
To simplify, a health plan needs to put the consumer at the center of every decision it makes.
However, in order to plan, communicate, and effectively market to consumers, your health plan must know the consumer, the technology, and the future.
If you’re looking to grow your health plan, we have just released a new guide to help your health plan leverage trends in the post-reform consumer marketplace.
In our latest whitepaper, we share the keys to success for health plans, including the following:
Consumer Trends: Top 5 Healthcare Executive Consumer Strategy Points, Today’s Healthcare Consumers: Six Types of Consumers You Need to Know, Millennial Consumers Special Report
Technology Trends: Big Data, Administration Technology, Payment Technology, mHealth and more.
Future Trends: Accountable Care Organizations, The Future of Telehealth, Continues Rise of Private Exchanges
All of this, and insights on how to make it work for your health plan.
Download this detailed guide, Health Plans: Your Guide to Leveraging Trends in the Post-Reform Consumer Marketplace, free from the Healthcare Trends Institute.
http://www.evolution1.com/health-plans-your-guide-to-leveraging-trends-in-the-post-reform-consumer-marketplace.html
The document proposes a business plan to capitalize on the disruption in the healthcare market caused by Obamacare. It aims to offer new preventative healthcare solutions focused on long term health and longevity. The plan is to consolidate the alternative health market, combine alternative and traditional medical approaches, and build a multi-billion dollar wellness organization worldwide. It currently offers training programs and products on holistic health principles but seeks funding to expand services, build corporate wellness programs, franchise centers, and scale operations globally to shift the paradigm to long term health.
This document provides an overview of corporate wellness programs. It discusses the purpose of such programs in promoting employee health and productivity. Common types of programs include education, biometric screening, and fitness/nutrition components. Obesity is addressed as an epidemic costing businesses billions in healthcare claims and lost productivity. Studies show corporate wellness programs can generate returns of $3-6 for every dollar spent by improving employee health and reducing absenteeism. The Affordable Care Act increases incentives for participation in wellness programs. Both rewards and penalties are used to motivate employees to participate and meet health targets.
This study provides definitive proof that Orriant's wellness program produces measurable health and financial results. The program uses a proprietary FIRM model and coaching approach to engage employees and lower healthcare costs with no employer cost. Orriant customizes an incentive and participation strategy for each client to maximize impact while ensuring the program is cost neutral through subsidies from non-participating employees. Wellness coaches guide participants through personalized plans to improve health outcomes and control claims spending.
A case study and how to implement a worksite wellness program. Steps and plans to "improve the health of your employees and the health of your bottom line!"
monroe_Science content day 1 & 2 power point 2012klmonroe
This document provides an agenda and notes for a two-day science instructional coaching session. Day 1 focuses on setting norms, learning objectives, culturally responsive pedagogy strategies, and developing mini-units. Participants shared best practices and gave peer feedback on mini-unit plans. Day 2 covers data use, formative assessments, classroom routines, and continuing work on mini-units with a focus on incorporating formative assessments and student feedback. The overall goal is to help educators improve science instruction and incorporate research-based culturally responsive strategies to increase student outcomes.
The document introduces ConnectOnTheGo, a mobile marketing solution that allows title companies to communicate with customers via text messaging. It discusses how text messaging is a highly effective marketing channel and lists several services that customers can access through text such as getting preliminary title reports and loan payment calculators. The solution allows title companies to promote their services, provide status updates, and transact business with customers via text on any mobile device. It also describes how the system works and the affordable payment options for companies.
Paradigm Health Plans was established in 2007 with a goal of improving employee health and reducing costs. It has grown rapidly and now has offices across the US. The document discusses Paradigm's belief that health plans must provide adequate coverage without sacrificing care quality. It outlines Paradigm's Lifestyle-for-Life program which identifies at-risk individuals and addresses their needs through benefits and clinical support. The Member Advantage Program (MAP) provides benefits education and assistance to ensure members understand and utilize their coverage fully.
Nationwide has a comprehensive internal health and productivity program called "My Health" that integrates various health services and incentives to encourage associate participation. The program relies on trusted relationships and continual outreach to help associates improve their health. It has led to increased health assessment completion, program enrollment and participation as well as decreased disability durations and costs.
This document discusses employee wellness programs in India as a strategy to address the growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). It provides an overview of the NCD burden in India and the rationale for implementing wellness programs in the workplace. The key benefits of workplace wellness programs for both employees and employers are described. A strategic approach and model for developing successful programs that address leadership, culture, people and processes is outlined. The importance of monitoring and evaluation is also emphasized. The document summarizes a joint World Economic Forum and WHO meeting that discussed barriers and opportunities for workplace wellness programs in India.
Reducing Health Insurance Costs The Year Aheadcheryllagun
The document discusses strategies for lowering healthcare costs in 2009. It notes that healthcare costs have been rising faster than inflation for several years. However, companies can take steps now to reduce costs for 2009 by implementing effective employee health and wellness programs. Such programs have been shown to generate a return of $2.50-$5.81 for every dollar spent by increasing productivity, lowering absenteeism and medical costs. The key is to create programs that engage employees and encourage real behavioral changes through incentives and accountability. Measuring outcomes is also important to demonstrate savings to insurance providers.
The document discusses how the Affordable Care Act amended HIPAA to allow employers to offer premium discounts of up to 30% to employees who participate in wellness programs. It provides an overview of how HIPAA regulates wellness programs and premium discounts. For a program to be HIPAA compliant, it must meet 5 requirements - the reward cannot exceed 30% of the cost of single coverage, it must be reasonably designed to promote health, it must allow yearly opportunities to qualify, and it must offer reasonable alternatives for individuals who cannot meet the standard due to a medical condition. The document also discusses how wellness programs intersect with the ADA and age discrimination laws.
Worksite Wellness: Small Steps to Healthier Employeesszapp
Many chronic health problems are caused by unhealthy, modifiable risk factors. Learn the importance of a health lifestyle and how implement a healthy behavior change program within your workplace.
The document discusses Advantage Workplace Wellness (AWW), an innovative digital health and wellness program. AWW promotes wellness in the workplace through technology-integrated programs that foster behavioral changes, measure health outcomes, and reduce costs. AWW's personalized wellness coaching and resources are accessible online 24/7. Evaluation of health metrics shows AWW programs lower medical and absenteeism costs, providing a 30% return on investment. The document advocates for wellness programs as a necessity to contain healthcare expenses and improve productivity.
United States businesses lose over $576 billion annually due to employee illness, with 450 million additional days of work missed due to conditions like obesity and chronic diseases. Poor health risks and behaviors account for 80% of costs for chronic illnesses, including smoking, poor diet, lack of exercise, and more. Implementing workplace wellness programs and policies targeting three health risks can save employers as much as $700 per employee per year through lower insurance costs, less absenteeism, and increased productivity and morale among healthier employees.
What effects are wellness programs having on the workforce and healthcare in general? With 76% of employers offering some form of wellness program, resource, or service to employees last year, how much has this changed over the years, and what has worked?
The latest infographic from the Healthcare Trends Institute demonstrates the effects of wellness programs, the most popular incentive-based health improvement programs, the importance of proper design in wellness, and future improvements that employers can expect in coming years.
Vigor Source provides wellness consulting services to help companies establish wellness programs. Their services include staffing wellness teams, collecting health data, creating wellness plans and choosing interventions. Partnering with Vigor Source can boost a company's bottom line by reducing healthcare costs and increasing productivity. On average, their clients see a 28% reduction in sick leave, 26% reduction in health costs, and 30% reduction in workers compensation claims. Their goal is to enhance employee and corporate well-being through health risk reduction and promotion of fitness.
The proposed regulations clarify rules around workplace wellness programs under the Affordable Care Act and HIPAA. They allow rewards of up to 30% of health coverage costs (50% for tobacco cessation programs) and require programs to be reasonably designed to promote health and available to all employees through alternative standards or waiver for those unable to meet initial standards due to health factors. Programs must provide notice of alternative means to earn rewards. Participatory programs like fitness center memberships need not comply if they do not discriminate based on health status.
The document summarizes a webinar on leveraging value-based benefit design to improve member health outcomes and lower costs. It introduces the panelists, who are experts from health plans that have implemented value-based benefit designs. It defines value-based benefit design and provides examples from early adopters, such as tiered benefit structures and lessons learned around member and provider communication and engagement. The document concludes by inviting participants to ask questions.
Bill King's Vistage Presentation Healthcare ReformDouglasMcQueen
The document provides an overview of how the Affordable Care Act affects health plans and employers. It discusses provisions for grandfathered and new plans, including required coverage of preventive care and adult children up to age 26. It also outlines new regulations and taxes such as prohibitions on lifetime limits, requirements to offer coverage to full-time employees or pay penalties, and a 40% tax on high-cost plans.
Five years in, and the Affordable Care Act continues to command conversation in the benefits landscape. Industry players are still scrambling to implement new provisions, keep healthcare costs down, create infrastructure to support new reporting requirements, and develop new payer, provider and care delivery models.
This has, in turn pushed the respective hands of health plans, who have had to change their strategies to fit both the consumerization of insurance and the standards set forth under the ACA.
With end-users in the forefront, health plans must take the strategy implemented 15 years ago with the rise of the internet, and push the marketing and communication initiatives into overdrive to gain and retain customers.
Health plans are shifting their mentality and communication, ant the best of the best are putting time, money, and energy into literacy and new business initiatives.
To simplify, a health plan needs to put the consumer at the center of every decision it makes.
However, in order to plan, communicate, and effectively market to consumers, your health plan must know the consumer, the technology, and the future.
If you’re looking to grow your health plan, we have just released a new guide to help your health plan leverage trends in the post-reform consumer marketplace.
In our latest whitepaper, we share the keys to success for health plans, including the following:
Consumer Trends: Top 5 Healthcare Executive Consumer Strategy Points, Today’s Healthcare Consumers: Six Types of Consumers You Need to Know, Millennial Consumers Special Report
Technology Trends: Big Data, Administration Technology, Payment Technology, mHealth and more.
Future Trends: Accountable Care Organizations, The Future of Telehealth, Continues Rise of Private Exchanges
All of this, and insights on how to make it work for your health plan.
Download this detailed guide, Health Plans: Your Guide to Leveraging Trends in the Post-Reform Consumer Marketplace, free from the Healthcare Trends Institute.
http://www.evolution1.com/health-plans-your-guide-to-leveraging-trends-in-the-post-reform-consumer-marketplace.html
The document proposes a business plan to capitalize on the disruption in the healthcare market caused by Obamacare. It aims to offer new preventative healthcare solutions focused on long term health and longevity. The plan is to consolidate the alternative health market, combine alternative and traditional medical approaches, and build a multi-billion dollar wellness organization worldwide. It currently offers training programs and products on holistic health principles but seeks funding to expand services, build corporate wellness programs, franchise centers, and scale operations globally to shift the paradigm to long term health.
This document provides an overview of corporate wellness programs. It discusses the purpose of such programs in promoting employee health and productivity. Common types of programs include education, biometric screening, and fitness/nutrition components. Obesity is addressed as an epidemic costing businesses billions in healthcare claims and lost productivity. Studies show corporate wellness programs can generate returns of $3-6 for every dollar spent by improving employee health and reducing absenteeism. The Affordable Care Act increases incentives for participation in wellness programs. Both rewards and penalties are used to motivate employees to participate and meet health targets.
This study provides definitive proof that Orriant's wellness program produces measurable health and financial results. The program uses a proprietary FIRM model and coaching approach to engage employees and lower healthcare costs with no employer cost. Orriant customizes an incentive and participation strategy for each client to maximize impact while ensuring the program is cost neutral through subsidies from non-participating employees. Wellness coaches guide participants through personalized plans to improve health outcomes and control claims spending.
A case study and how to implement a worksite wellness program. Steps and plans to "improve the health of your employees and the health of your bottom line!"
monroe_Science content day 1 & 2 power point 2012klmonroe
This document provides an agenda and notes for a two-day science instructional coaching session. Day 1 focuses on setting norms, learning objectives, culturally responsive pedagogy strategies, and developing mini-units. Participants shared best practices and gave peer feedback on mini-unit plans. Day 2 covers data use, formative assessments, classroom routines, and continuing work on mini-units with a focus on incorporating formative assessments and student feedback. The overall goal is to help educators improve science instruction and incorporate research-based culturally responsive strategies to increase student outcomes.
The document introduces ConnectOnTheGo, a mobile marketing solution that allows title companies to communicate with customers via text messaging. It discusses how text messaging is a highly effective marketing channel and lists several services that customers can access through text such as getting preliminary title reports and loan payment calculators. The solution allows title companies to promote their services, provide status updates, and transact business with customers via text on any mobile device. It also describes how the system works and the affordable payment options for companies.
The document introduces ConnectOnTheGoTM, a mobile marketing solution that allows title companies to communicate with customers via text messaging. It provides an overview of the benefits of text messaging for real estate businesses and how the ConnectOnTheGoTM system works. The demonstration shows how users can request information like fees by texting keywords. It also outlines the affordable payment options and steps to get started with the ConnectOnTheGoTM solution.
This Corel Paint Shop Pro X tutorial document provides instructions for cutting out a foreground subject from one photo, pasting it onto a background image to create a composite photo, adding borders and a picture frame, and provides information about copyright laws. The tutorial guides the user through opening photos, selecting tools, trimming and copying/pasting the subject, resizing and adjusting the image, selecting border colors and widths, and adding a picture frame to produce a final composite photo.
The document discusses Ronald Coase's seminal work "The Nature of the Firm: Origins, Evolution, and Development" which explores why firms exist, how they are structured internally and their relationship with markets. Coase examines how transactions are organized within firms and through market exchange, considering why firms emerge to organize production and how the boundaries of the firm are determined.
Artist Trading Cards: Principles and Elements of DesignLinda Larson
GRD 131 is an online course offered in the Spring of 2013. The course involves creating Artist Trading Cards, which are small artworks typically measuring 2" x 3 1/2" that are collected and traded by artists. Students in the course will make and trade their own artist trading cards as part of their coursework.
Reading practice test 1 ielts general trainingLee Thatcher
Calisthenics is the oldest form of resistance training using only body weight. It was practiced by ancient Spartan armies and Greeks who valued physical strength, beauty, and proportion. Calisthenics experienced a golden age in the 1800s and 1950s but then declined as bodybuilding focused solely on muscle size using steroids and weights instead of natural whole-body development. It has endured for millennia due to its simplicity and effectiveness without equipment.
This document is an English grammar lesson about using forms of the verbs "be" and "have". It includes sections on yes/no questions with "be", short answers, questions using "where", "have" and "has", possessive pronouns like "my" and "your", and questions with "what" and "who". Each section provides examples, explanations, and exercises to practice the grammar points. The document ends with a review that tests understanding of when to use "am", "is", and "are".
The document lists various tools that can be used for communication, publication, and content creation for Comenius projects between 2008 and 2010. It mentions e-mail, video conferencing, forums, wikis, blogs, and other social media as options for communication and publication. It also lists programs like PowerPoint, Animoto, Hot Potatoes, and Scratch that can be used to prepare materials on topics like counting, culture, and communications.
This short document promotes creating presentations using Haiku Deck, a tool for making slideshows. It encourages the reader to get started making their own Haiku Deck presentation and sharing it on SlideShare. In just one sentence, it pitches the idea of using Haiku Deck to easily create engaging slideshows.
This document summarizes the evolution of Ohio State University's "Your Plan for Health" (YP4H) program, which aims to control rising healthcare costs while improving faculty and staff wellness. Key points include: YP4H has helped reduce annual cost trends and avoid over $3 million in costs from 2006-2009 through risk identification programs. However, an aging workforce and rise in chronic conditions presents ongoing challenges. YP4H 2.0 seeks to engage more individuals through personalized and predictive approaches aligned with the university's culture of wellness. Future strategies include high-performance plan designs, integrated care delivery between providers and plans, and continued focus on population health management.
This document summarizes the evolution of Ohio State University's "Your Plan for Health" (YP4H) program, which aims to control rising healthcare costs while improving faculty and staff wellness. Key points include: YP4H has helped reduce annual cost trends and avoid over $3 million in costs from 2006-2009 through risk identification programs. However, an aging workforce and rise in chronic conditions presents ongoing challenges. YP4H 2.0 seeks to engage more individuals through personalized and predictive approaches aligned with the university's culture of wellness. Future strategies include high-performance plan designs, integrated care delivery between providers and plans, and continued focus on population health management.
This document summarizes the results of a study on a unique proven wellness program. The study provides definitive proof that the program leads to improved health outcomes and reduced healthcare costs. The program engages employees and spouses through individual health coaching, biometric screening, and financial incentives for participation. Data shows participation rates and healthcare claims decreased while program costs for employers were neutral.
Health Contingent Wellness Programs Draft PowerPoint with BH EditsDresden Maddox
The document outlines plans for developing an outcomes-based wellness program at HarbinStrong. It defines outcomes-based programs as incentivizing employees for meeting specific health goals. The purpose is to encourage healthy behaviors and reduce healthcare costs. Methodology discusses researching legislation, other programs, and health benchmarks. Examples show participation rates increased over 95% and insurance claims decreased by 1-3% with incentives for meeting biometric goals. Implementation should consider phasing in requirements and tracking progress.
The document provides a roadmap for employers to improve employee health and organizational productivity through a three-phase process. It outlines seven key elements for developing a comprehensive health strategy including establishing an organizational health vision, securing management commitment, addressing workplace policies, using health metrics, setting health goals, implementing value-based insurance, and integrating medical homes. The roadmap is intended to guide employers from basic health programs in Phase 1 to a fully integrated health management strategy in Phase 3.
The document summarizes a webinar on leveraging value-based benefit design to improve member health outcomes and lower costs. It introduces the panelists, who are experts from health plans that have implemented value-based benefit designs. It defines value-based benefit design and provides examples from early adopters, such as tiered benefit structures and lessons learned around member and provider communication and engagement. The document concludes by inviting participants to ask questions.
This document summarizes a webinar on why many company wellness programs fail and what can be done about it. The webinar was presented by David McGlennen from Bravo Wellness and Tony Kahmann from Waldo Agencies, Inc. It discussed how chronic diseases are often caused by poor lifestyle, and that worksite wellness programs have been shown to improve employee health and reduce medical costs. Common roadblocks to effective wellness programs like lack of participation and return on investment were addressed. The webinar promoted Bravo Wellness as a partner that can help design compliant programs, coordinate screenings and incentives, and achieve goals like increased participation and cost savings.
Journal Communications implemented a value-based benefit design to improve health outcomes and control costs. They promoted high-quality, low-cost providers and reduced barriers to preventive care. They also managed chronic diseases through a pharmacy compliance program offering coaching and incentives. Wellness programs were integrated, using data to connect participants with the right resources and motivate healthy behaviors. Through engagement and prevention, they achieved better health outcomes while lowering healthcare spending.
The Covenant Care program offers an alternative to traditional employer-sponsored health insurance that focuses on managing real healthcare costs and risk factors. It provides integrated wellness programs, biometric screenings, and incentives to encourage healthy behaviors and reduce costs driven by lifestyle-related conditions. Case studies show the program helped organizations reduce claims costs by up to 62% while improving employee health outcomes. The program offers a capped risk alternative that provides downside protection similar to fully insured plans while allowing benefits customization and potential upside savings like self-funded plans.
The document discusses Covenant Care, an alternative to fully insured employer health plans for groups of 25-250 employees. It offers fixed monthly funding caps and integrated wellness programs. Case studies show cost savings of up to 62% for employers who implemented this strategy of focusing on risk shifting rather than cost shifting through wellness programs and tools like biometric screenings, medical advocacy, telemedicine, and reinsurance contracts. The strategy addresses the root cause of rising costs, which are largely due to lifestyle-related and preventable chronic conditions.
Proactive Health Management Plan - Employer OverviewSheldon Lee
The Proactive Health Managment Plan (PHMP) is recognized as one of the most dynamic healthcare cost savings programs in the USA because of its proven and patented resources for helping employees get healthier and be proactive with their health and healthcare. The results for both employers and employees is both immediate and long-term.
6 Innovative Approaches Employers Can Take to Control Health Plan CostsCBIZ, Inc.
Because of the long-term trend of rising health care costs and slow economic growth, organizations are reassessing and redefining their roles as providers and subsidizers of their employees’ health care benefits, adjusting their ways of sponsoring benefits plans and becoming more innovative with their approach.
Here are six benefits cost containment strategies employers should consider:
T. Rowe Price has provided a article for Advisors regarding Financial wellness programs:
an opportunity to differentiate your practice and broaden your reach. Employers are increasingly seeking to offer holistic financial education that benefits both the employees and the company itself.
This document discusses keys to renewing interest in a corporate wellness program that has lost momentum. It identifies improving incentives, sharpening communications, and tailoring the program to the specific employee population as important factors. Improved incentives could include subsidizing more of the program's cost. Clear and consistent messaging through various channels is also important. Understanding employee demographics can help design programming that resonates better, such as including spouses or focusing on team-building activities for certain groups. Maintaining engagement is important to shift more employees to lower health risk levels over time.
Ascension is the largest non-profit health system in the US with over 1,900 locations across 23 states. In 2014, they launched their first national wellness program through a partnership with WebMD to address the common health risks faced by employees, such as obesity and high blood pressure. The program achieved a 50% participation rate in its first year through a strategic communication plan. Leadership is supportive of the program and its goals of cultivating a culture of health. Looking ahead, Ascension aims to continue adapting the program and its resources to offer value to all employees.
Overview of an Open-Platform Health Plan that Lowers Costs and Improves Perfo...Mark Gall
It's hard to gauge how well a health plan is performing. Do our employees understand and get the most out of their benefits? How effective is our wellness program? Are we paying too much for services? These are typical questions. An Open-Platform Health Plan is a self-funded health plan with unique features that allow an employer to establish, track and review performance benchmarks and reduce their exposure to risk.
HLU Consultants, Inc. is a privately held, independent consulting firm based out of Cincinnati, OH since 1961. The consultants at HLU successfully bring together a tremendous amount of industry expertise, valued partners and innovative technologies to design a better, cost-efficient health plan around a customer’s workforce. They help employers establish meaningful benchmarks so they can gauge the success of their plan with a focus on reducing costs, improving outcomes and helping employees successfully navigate the complex healthcare system.
The document introduces HLU Consultants, an independent consulting firm that offers an alternative to traditional health plans through an open-platform, self-funded model. This model provides employers more control over their health plans, lower costs through reduced claim costs and a focus on wellness, and simplified administration. The model analyzes claims data to identify overcharges and strategizes ongoing cost control. In contrast to traditional brokers, HLU acts independently without incentives to select the best solutions for each client.
The document discusses different pre-tax benefit options for small businesses including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs), and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). It provides details on what each option is, the eligibility requirements, tax benefits, and considerations for employers in setting up and managing the accounts. The goal is to help small businesses determine the right pre-tax benefits to offer employees in order to attract talent and help offset rising health care costs.
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Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis - Pathogenesis , Clinical Features & Manage...Jim Jacob Roy
In this presentation , SBP ( spontaneous bacterial peritonitis ) , which is a common complication in patients with cirrhosis and ascites is described in detail.
The reference for this presentation is Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease Textbook ( 11th edition ).
PGx Analysis in VarSeq: A User’s PerspectiveGolden Helix
Since our release of the PGx capabilities in VarSeq, we’ve had a few months to gather some insights from various use cases. Some users approach PGx workflows by means of array genotyping or what seems to be a growing trend of adding the star allele calling to the existing NGS pipeline for whole genome data. Luckily, both approaches are supported with the VarSeq software platform. The genotyping method being used will also dictate what the scope of the tertiary analysis will be. For example, are your PGx reports a standalone pipeline or would your lab’s goal be to handle a dual-purpose workflow and report on PGx + Diagnostic findings.
The purpose of this webcast is to:
Discuss and demonstrate the approaches with array and NGS genotyping methods for star allele calling to prep for downstream analysis.
Following genotyping, explore alternative tertiary workflow concepts in VarSeq to handle PGx reporting.
Moreover, we will include insights users will need to consider when validating their PGx workflow for all possible star alleles and options you have for automating your PGx analysis for large number of samples. Please join us for a session dedicated to the application of star allele genotyping and subsequent PGx workflows in our VarSeq software.
Osvaldo Bernardo Muchanga-GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTIONS AND GASTRITIS-2024.pdfOsvaldo Bernardo Muchanga
GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTIONS AND GASTRITIS
Osvaldo Bernardo Muchanga
Gastrointestinal Infections
GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTIONS result from the ingestion of pathogens that cause infections at the level of this tract, generally being transmitted by food, water and hands contaminated by microorganisms such as E. coli, Salmonella, Shigella, Vibrio cholerae, Campylobacter, Staphylococcus, Rotavirus among others that are generally contained in feces, thus configuring a FECAL-ORAL type of transmission.
Among the factors that lead to the occurrence of gastrointestinal infections are the hygienic and sanitary deficiencies that characterize our markets and other places where raw or cooked food is sold, poor environmental sanitation in communities, deficiencies in water treatment (or in the process of its plumbing), risky hygienic-sanitary habits (not washing hands after major and/or minor needs), among others.
These are generally consequences (signs and symptoms) resulting from gastrointestinal infections: diarrhea, vomiting, fever and malaise, among others.
The treatment consists of replacing lost liquids and electrolytes (drinking drinking water and other recommended liquids, including consumption of juicy fruits such as papayas, apples, pears, among others that contain water in their composition).
To prevent this, it is necessary to promote health education, improve the hygienic-sanitary conditions of markets and communities in general as a way of promoting, preserving and prolonging PUBLIC HEALTH.
Gastritis and Gastric Health
Gastric Health is one of the most relevant concerns in human health, with gastrointestinal infections being among the main illnesses that affect humans.
Among gastric problems, we have GASTRITIS AND GASTRIC ULCERS as the main public health problems. Gastritis and gastric ulcers normally result from inflammation and corrosion of the walls of the stomach (gastric mucosa) and are generally associated (caused) by the bacterium Helicobacter pylor, which, according to the literature, this bacterium settles on these walls (of the stomach) and starts to release urease that ends up altering the normal pH of the stomach (acid), which leads to inflammation and corrosion of the mucous membranes and consequent gastritis or ulcers, respectively.
In addition to bacterial infections, gastritis and gastric ulcers are associated with several factors, with emphasis on prolonged fasting, chemical substances including drugs, alcohol, foods with strong seasonings including chilli, which ends up causing inflammation of the stomach walls and/or corrosion. of the same, resulting in the appearance of wounds and consequent gastritis or ulcers, respectively.
Among patients with gastritis and/or ulcers, one of the dilemmas is associated with the foods to consume in order to minimize the sensation of pain and discomfort.
Are you looking for a long-lasting solution to your missing tooth?
Dental implants are the most common type of method for replacing the missing tooth. Unlike dentures or bridges, implants are surgically placed in the jawbone. In layman’s terms, a dental implant is similar to the natural root of the tooth. It offers a stable foundation for the artificial tooth giving it the look, feel, and function similar to the natural tooth.
STUDIES IN SUPPORT OF SPECIAL POPULATIONS: GERIATRICS E7shruti jagirdar
Unit 4: MRA 103T Regulatory affairs
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Nutritional deficiency Disorder are problems in india.
It is very important to learn about Indian child's nutritional parameters as well the Disease related to alteration in their Nutrition.
“Psychiatry and the Humanities”: An Innovative Course at the University of Mo...Université de Montréal
“Psychiatry and the Humanities”: An Innovative Course at the University of Montreal Expanding the medical model to embrace the humanities. Link: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/-psychiatry-and-the-humanities-an-innovative-course-at-the-university-of-montreal
Nano-gold for Cancer Therapy chemistry investigatory projectSIVAVINAYAKPK
chemistry investigatory project
The development of nanogold-based cancer therapy could revolutionize oncology by providing a more targeted, less invasive treatment option. This project contributes to the growing body of research aimed at harnessing nanotechnology for medical applications, paving the way for future clinical trials and potential commercial applications.
Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, prompting the need for innovative treatment methods. Nanotechnology offers promising new approaches, including the use of gold nanoparticles (nanogold) for targeted cancer therapy. Nanogold particles possess unique physical and chemical properties that make them suitable for drug delivery, imaging, and photothermal therapy.