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Tuesday May 16, 2006
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7:15 am
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| 8:15 am - 9:00 am |
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Steven S. Foldes Ph.D.
Director of Research and Evaluation, Center for Prevention
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
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| 9:00 am - 10:00 am |
Choose the Right Health Risk Appraisal to Make the Most of the Instrument |
- Recommend ways to select the best HRA for your population
- Evaluate HRA technology
- Discuss how to use and interpret HRA data
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J. Robert Plankenhorn
President & Chief Executive Officer
Summex Health Management
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| 10:00 am - 10:30 am |
Break |
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Select Health Promotion Vendors to Meet Goals and Objectives |
- Assess quality- can the vendor customize the product/service that meets your organization’s unique needs?
- Evaluate customer service philosophy, process and ethics and the participant-professional ratio
- Examine elements of comparability, personalization and navigability in technology
- Is the vendor competitively priced, is there a performance guarantee, are there other fees, who is at fault in a liability case?
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John Harris
Principal
Harris HealthTrends, Inc.
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| 9:00 am - 10:00 am |
Lifestyle Coaching: Motivate People to Change |
- Examine health coaching in corporate settings
- Determine efficacy of onsite coaching vs. telephonic
- Improve workers’ lifestyle behaviors, reduce medical claims costs and achieve a positive ROI
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Karri J. Neils PHR
Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Sargento Foods
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| 10:00 am - 10:30 am |
Break |
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Economy of Well Being: Programming for Resilience |
- Analyze contemporary science-based health education/health promotion approaches to developing effective practices utilizing economic and non-economic indices and measures.
- Examine new paradigms of wellness theory, specifically positive psychology and happiness research and practice that are essential to successful health promotion wellness and programming
- Review resilience and protective factors that supplement economic indicators utilized to describe well-being
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Donna Allen Cover PhD
Professor
Chair
Department of Health Promotion
Nebraska Methodist College
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Searching for the Fountain of Health - Changing the National Dialogue |
- Examine the medical and financial consequences of loneliness and the links between human relationships and health
- How can transactional psycho-physiology lower blood pressure of cardiac patients without pharmacological intervention?
- Determine the cost-effectiveness of psycho-physiology and the promotion of self-esteem, school success and community by providers
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James J. Lynch PhD
Director
Life Care Health Associates
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10:30 am - 11:30 am
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| Senator Harkin's Healthy Workforce Act: Provide tax credits to businesses that offer comprehensive programs to promote employee wellness and health, technical assistance to evaluate programs, and a campaign to employers on the health and financial benefits of health promotion. |
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Michael O'Donnell MPH, MBA, PhD
Director
Wellness and Health Promotion Cleveland Clinic
Editor-in-Chief
American Journal of Health Promotion
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| Reactors: How does the legislation impact business and wellness communities? |
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Michael Aitken
Director of Government Affairs
Society of Human Resource Management
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Ann McCulloch
Director, External Affairs
Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association
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11:30 am - 12:30 pm
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12:15 pm
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12:35 pm
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- Analyze strategies to gain senior management support for health promotion programs
- Use survey research from 343 CFOs to connect workforce health to its business value through managing health-related productivity
- Examine a five step approach on how to move decision makers
from thought to action
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1:15 pm
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- Analyze the validation process for existing health and productivity survey instruments
- Identify the diseases and behaviors that are most likely associated with presenteeism
- Assess the current status of the implementation of programs on health and productivity and the impact of presenteeism
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Bill Whitmer MBA
President & Chief Executive Officer
Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO)
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2:00 pm
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2:30 pm
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- Identify the major components of a meta-evaluation of the economic return studies from worksite wellness and behavioral health programs
- Describe the summary findings from 56 peer review articles of the economic return from worksite wellness programs with a special emphasis on linking behavioral health to health promotion and productivity
- List the major implications of the economic research on the design and implementation of cost-appropriate behavioral and wellness interventions
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3:30 pm
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