Guest(s)
Nico Pronk, Ph.D., FACSM and Ray Fabius, M.D.
Topic
Worksite Wellness, The IAWHP, International Association for Worksite HealthPromotion.
Topic Info
More than 60% of adults work, and many spend 2,000 or more hours a year at work. Worksite wellness makes the places they work healthier. An ideal healthy worksite has opportunities for employees to: be physically active
eat healthful foods and live tobacco-free.
A 2002 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services study noted that companies with physical activity programs for employees have reduced health care costs by 20 percent to 55 percent, reduced short-term sick leave by up to 32 percent and increased productivity by up to 52 percent.
A 2002 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services study noted that companies with physical activity programs for employees have reduced health care costs by 20 percent to 55 percent, reduced short-term sick leave by up to 32 percent and increased productivity by up to 52 percent.
Guest Info
Nicolaas P. Pronk, Ph.D., FACSM -
Dr. Nicolaas P. Pronk is the vice president and Health Science Officer for JourneyWell at HealthPartners, a large non-profit, member-governed integrated health system in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is also a Senior Research Investigator at the HealthPartners Research Foundation where he conducts research in the area of health behavior change and population health.
Dr. Pronk is widely published in both the scientific and practice literature and is currently an Editorial Board member for several scientific and practice journals. He is the founding president of the International Association for Worksite Health Promotion (IAWHP). He is a current member of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services, the Clinical Obesity Research Panel at the National Institutes of Health, and a faculty member of the World Health Organization Non-Communicable Disease Prevention course in Finland. He is a former member of the Defense Health Board (Armed Forces Epidemiological Board), ACSM’s Behavioral Strategies Committee, and the Institute of Medicine’s Committee to Assess Health Promotion Programs at NASA. Dr. Pronk is the author of the scientific background paper for the U.S. National Physical Activity Plan for Business and Industry and the Senior Editor of ACSM’s Worksite Health Handbook, Second Edition (2009).
Raymond J. Fabius, MD, CPE, FACPE -
Dr. Fabius is the co-founder of HealthNEXT and Strategic Adviser for Walgreens Health & Wellness. These two roles have him focused on population health management and building organizational cultures of health. Previously, Dr. Fabius was President and CMO of CHD Meridian Healthcare, the leading provider of workplace health and productivity solutions, serving nearly 100 corporate clients with over 250 locations, CHD Meridian offered a broad spectrum of on-site medical services including primary care, pharmacy and occupational health and provided a comprehensive solution integrating programs such as disease and disability management leveraging the trusted clinicians at the workplace™.
Prior to that, Dr. Fabius was global medical leader at General Electric responsible for the health and safety of over 330,000 employees and corporate medical director of utilization, disease and quality management as well as eHealth and Health informatics for Aetna and US Healthcare. He is a recognized early framer of the population health. He has written two books on the subject, in 1994 and 2001. The second entitled “Total Care Management” was the recipient of the ACPE Robert A Henry Literary Award as the best book in the field of medical management.
Dr. Nicolaas P. Pronk is the vice president and Health Science Officer for JourneyWell at HealthPartners, a large non-profit, member-governed integrated health system in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is also a Senior Research Investigator at the HealthPartners Research Foundation where he conducts research in the area of health behavior change and population health.
Dr. Pronk is widely published in both the scientific and practice literature and is currently an Editorial Board member for several scientific and practice journals. He is the founding president of the International Association for Worksite Health Promotion (IAWHP). He is a current member of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services, the Clinical Obesity Research Panel at the National Institutes of Health, and a faculty member of the World Health Organization Non-Communicable Disease Prevention course in Finland. He is a former member of the Defense Health Board (Armed Forces Epidemiological Board), ACSM’s Behavioral Strategies Committee, and the Institute of Medicine’s Committee to Assess Health Promotion Programs at NASA. Dr. Pronk is the author of the scientific background paper for the U.S. National Physical Activity Plan for Business and Industry and the Senior Editor of ACSM’s Worksite Health Handbook, Second Edition (2009).
Raymond J. Fabius, MD, CPE, FACPE -
Dr. Fabius is the co-founder of HealthNEXT and Strategic Adviser for Walgreens Health & Wellness. These two roles have him focused on population health management and building organizational cultures of health. Previously, Dr. Fabius was President and CMO of CHD Meridian Healthcare, the leading provider of workplace health and productivity solutions, serving nearly 100 corporate clients with over 250 locations, CHD Meridian offered a broad spectrum of on-site medical services including primary care, pharmacy and occupational health and provided a comprehensive solution integrating programs such as disease and disability management leveraging the trusted clinicians at the workplace™.
Prior to that, Dr. Fabius was global medical leader at General Electric responsible for the health and safety of over 330,000 employees and corporate medical director of utilization, disease and quality management as well as eHealth and Health informatics for Aetna and US Healthcare. He is a recognized early framer of the population health. He has written two books on the subject, in 1994 and 2001. The second entitled “Total Care Management” was the recipient of the ACPE Robert A Henry Literary Award as the best book in the field of medical management.
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Host
Melanie Cole, M.S.
Show Date
12 / 1 / 2009
