BACKGROUND State employee health plans sometimes provide worksite wellness programs to reduce the prevalence of chronic diseases among their members, but few offer the comprehensive range of interventions recommended by the Task Force on Community Preventive Services. COMMUNITY CONTEXT North Carolina's State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees provides health coverage for approximate...

background scholars describe poor health literacy as a “silent epidemic,” which is challenging the functioning of healthcare systems all over the world. health literacy is mainly meant as an individual trait which concerns the ability to obtain, process, and understand basic health information in order to effectively navigate the health system. low health literate patients perceive poor self-ef...

Public health in the United States can be improved by building workplace "cultures of health" that support healthy lifestyles. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), which includes the Prevention and Public Health Fund, will support a new focus on prevention and wellness, offering opportunities to strengthen the public's health through workplace wellness initiatives. This article describes the opportun...

Comprehensive school health (CSH) is a framework that can support teachers in the delivery of health-related content as well supporting promotion within community. In this study, 222 Bachelor Education students completed surveys at beginning and end mandatory six-week course on CSH with body weight-neutral focus. Following course, participants had significantly positively increased attitudes to...

OBJECTIVE This report presents national estimates of selected wellness-related reasons for the use of natural product supplements, yoga, and spinal manipulation among U.S. adults in 2012. Self-reported perceived health outcomes were also examined. METHODS Data from 34,252 adults aged 18 and over collected as part of the 2012 National Health Interview Survey were analyzed for this report. In p...

Following Johnston, Puczko, Smith, and Ellis (2011), Hitz et al. (2014) define wellness tourism as: 'involving people traveling to a different place proactively pursue activities that maintain or enhance their personal health well-being, who are seeking unique, authentic location-based experiences therapies not available at home'.The present study reveals the possibilities for promotion by anal...

in 1985-86, the european office of world health organization (who) proposed the health promotion program under the theme “healthy cities projects”. with the aim of securing individual and collective welfare, the staffs of healthy city in tehran also began their official activities at 13th aban street at rey (tehran’s 20th municipal district) along with community participation and intersectoral ...

PURPOSE To examine health risk changes among participants of a multicomponent worksite health promotion program. DESIGN A study using health risk changes among health risk appraisal (HRA) participants linked to program participation records. Baseline risk and participation in multiple programs were examined in relation to risk change in multivariate models. SETTING Worksite health promotion...