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From the Editor
Editor's Notes May/June 2010
Making the Impossible Possible:
Engaging the Entire Population in
Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion
Programs at No Net Cost to Employers or
Employees
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Sec. 2705 ("Prohibiting
Discrimination Against Individual
Participants and Beneficiaries Based on
Health Status") of the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care (PPAC)
Act includes a provision that allows
employers more flexibility in setting
health plan premiums based on employees'
meeting health standards.1 This
mechanism has the potential to do what
seems intuitively impossible: drive
participation in workplace health
promotion programs to nearly 100%, and
fund the full cost of a comprehensive
health promotion program at no
additional cost to the employers or
employees as a group. This provision was
developed by Safeway, not Health
Promotion Advocates,2 but Health
Promotion Advocates strongly endorsed it
and generated more than 11,000 letters
to members of Congress to support it. I
predict that financing health promotion
programs using this mechanism will
become the norm among major employers in
the next few years.
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21st Annual Art and Science of Health
Promotion Conference
March 21-25
The Broadmoor
CALL
FOR PROPOSALS
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Now Open
Capturing the Wisdom of Practice and the
Rigor of Science:
Discovering the Best
Health Promotion Strategies
Demand for
health promotion programs is at an all
time high. Most large and medium
sized employers either have programs in
place or plan to launch one soon.
Hospitals are offering programs to their
patients and communities.
Insurance carriers are engaging their
members in lifestyle change campaigns
and paying for proactive clinical health
promotion procedures. Basic
programs are evolving into comprehensive
programs. Health promotion
strategies are being integrated into
state and national policy through
medical care, transportation,
agriculture, and business tax
procedures. Well-designed programs
continue to improve health and save
money. That's the very good news.
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Definition of Health Promotion
Health Promotion is the art and science of
helping people discover the synergies between
their core passions and optimal health,
enhancing their motivation to strive for optimal
health, and supporting them in changing their
lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal
health. Optimal health is a dynamic balance of
physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and
intellectual health. Lifestyle change can be
facilitated through a combination of learning
experiences that enhance awareness, increase
motivation, and build skills and, most
important, through the creation of opportunities
that open access to environments that make
positive health practices the easiest choice.
O’Donnell MP. Definition of health promotion
2.0: embracing passion, enhancing motivation,
recognizing dynamic balance, and creating
opportunities. Am J Health Promot. 2009
Sept-Oct;24(1):iv.
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Physical |
Fitness.
Nutrition. Medical self-care. Control of substance abuse. |
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Emotional |
Care for
emotional crisis. Stress Management |
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Social |
Communities.
Families. Friends |
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Intellectual |
Educational.
Achievement. Career development |
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Spiritual |
Love. Hope.
Charity. |
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Our definition of health promotion guides the editorial content
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