Leadership Support and the Effectiveness of Wellness Initiatives
By Octavia Zahrt, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Octavia Zahrt is a Ph.D. candidate in Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is interested in innovative ways to help people thrive at work and beyond. Her work draws on organizational behavior, psychology, and human-computer interaction to investigate …
How are we doing at breaking the stigma about Opioids?
When something is surrounded by stigma, not talking about it comes naturally. From topics as charged as knowing someone going to prison to others as benign as dealing with a child’s bedwetting, avoidance can feel like the most reliable way to cope. But when we buy into a pattern of …
Member Profile: Gregg Gascon
MEMBER PROFILE Gregg Gascon During 2018, each monthly Brief will include a member profile where we ask our guest to answer three questions we believe other members would be interested in learning more about. Our second member profile features Gregg Gascon, PhD, CHDA, Clinical Data Scientist, OhioHealth Group Clinically Integrated Network. …
Head, Heart and Feet in Weight Management
It has been argued that the willpower of our citizenry hasn’t measurably changed during the decades in which our nation’s waistlines have measurably expanded. I agree, and I’d also submit that a weakening of political willpower and a lack of moral courage among those of us called to leadership is …
HERO Think Tank Readings for “Overdosed: Are we taking in too much?” The Opioid Epidemic
Winter Think Tank Meeting March 1st and 2nd Austin, Texas How are we doing as a profession, and as family members and citizens, speaking up about addiction? As I was preparing our Think Tank Agenda focused on the opioid epidemic, I was weighing how much time to allow for personal …
Organizational Support for Well-being Senior Leadership and Managerial Support Required
By Laura Hamill, PhD; Chief People Officer & Managing Director, Limeade Institute Organizational support for well-being is the extent to which an organization provides the resources, communication, reinforcement, and encouragement to enable employees to improve well-being. When individual improvement or behavior change happens, the “ecosystem” around that change has to …
The “Best of 2017 List” of Health Promotion Researchers by Paul Terry
Photo Credit: AZ Quotes To honor some of health promotion’s best scientists and especially to recognize those who bring outstanding humanity to their field of inquiry and bigheartedness to their writing, I am pleased to announce the American Journal of Health Promotion Papers of the Year. Occasionally I hear from …
Meeting the Needs of Sub-Population Cultures
Addressing the needs of sub-cultures is essential to fostering a culture of health. For example, something that may work great on the day shift may have little traction on the night shift. The norms and needs of machine operators may be very different from those in sales. How do you identify …
Influence of Incentives and Incentive Design on Participation and Satisfaction
Authored by Gretchen Heacock, M.Eng; Wellness Solutions Specialist, Mission Health System Wellness incentive designs are a hotly debated topic when it comes to structuring programs designed to drive high participation and improve health outcomes. The HERO Health and Well-being Best Practices Scorecard in Collaboration with Mercer© (HERO Scorecard) …
HERO Briefs by Paul Terry (October 2017)
HEROForum17 Proceedings Now Available. We are excited to announce the release of our HEROForum17 Proceedings. Read on for summaries of our pre-conference Summits and HERO members Think Tank, along with summaries of the keynote presentations. Reviews for HEROForum17 are in and as stellar as we could have hoped for! We …