The CDC’s New Workplace Health Website Helps Companies Make Wellness Their Business
With more than 159 million workers across the United States spending more than one-third of their day at the workplace, employers are in a position to play a significant role in improving the health and well-being of their employees. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently launched a …
HERO Briefs by Paul Terry (May 2017)
Do you to want to be successful or just get lucky? Well, if you read Roman philosophy you know that preparation plus opportunity produces luck. (Seneca, 65 AD) If your perspective is more in line with NASCAR fans, these same elements define success. (Bobby Unser, 1981) No matter your goals, …
Leading Health Promotion Book is available for Free to HERO Members (Pay it forward!)
HERO is delighted to announce that the Art and Science of Health Promotion Institute is making the book: Health Promotion in the Workplace, 5th edition (O’Donnell, 2017) available in PDF form for free. This 700+ reference text normally sells for $99.95. Access the book at: https://www.artsciencehpi.com/books. You can download the …
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Strategic Planning as a Fundamental Step for Achieving Outcomes
Authored by Niki Hunt, M.Ed., RD, LDN, CHES; Senior Health Education Consultant, Geneia Nicole Hunt is a senior health education consultant for Geneia. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Sports Nutrition and Nutrition/Dietetics from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania and received a Master of Education degree in Health Education …
What do Award Winning Actors and Health Promotion Research have in Common?
What do athletes, actors, writers and health promotion researchers share in common? Well, many things, but foremost they put themselves out there in the interest of creativity, discovery and an avid search for excellence. As leaders, they sometimes need to bear the indignities of critics and armchair quarterbacks, but that’s …
Sara Johnson, Jessica Grossmeier named Co-Editors of The Art & Science of Health Promotion
South Kingstown, RI and Waconia, MN (February 2, 2017)—Sara Johnson, Ph.D., and Jessica Grossmeier, Ph.D., MPH, have been named co-editors of The Art & Science of Health Promotion (TAHP). TAHP is a special section of the American Journal of Health Promotion (AJHP), a leading scientific periodical produced by SAGE for …
HERO Briefs by Paul Terry (January 2017)
Paul’s Five Workplace Health Promotion Predictions for 2017 (and two New Year’s Resolutions) My first prediction for 2017 is such a no-brainer that I’m not going to count it against the five others dispersed throughout this month’s HERO Brief. That is, the pace of change in our field will continue …
Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Communities receives website excellence award from 2016 WebAwards
EDINA, Minn. (Jan. 12, 2017) – Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Communities (HWHC), an initiative developed by the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) to foster collaboration between employers and community leaders that improve broad population health, has received the Web Marketing Association’s 2016 WebAward for Non-Profit Standard of Excellence in web development. …
SAGE Publishing names Paul Terry editor in chief of the American Journal of Health Promotion
WACONIA, MN (January 5, 2017) — SAGE Publishing announced today that Paul Terry, Ph.D., has been named editor in chief of the American Journal of Health Promotion (AJPH), a leading scientific periodical for research that advances healthy behaviors and communities domestically and globally. Terry will succeed Michael O’Donnell, Ph.D., who …