What does this mean?

How can I achieve this?

Relevance for Wellness Professionals

What is Workplace or Corporate Wellness?

Workplace Wellness is defined as:

An organized employer-sponsored program that is designed to support employees (and sometime, their families) as they adopt and sustain behaviors that reduce health risks, improve quality of life, enhance personal effectiveness, and benefit the organization's bottom line.” as defined by Leonard L. Berry, Ann M. Mirabito, and William B. Baum in What's the Hard Return on Employee Wellness Programs? Harvard Business Review. Dec. 2010 pp 1-9.

What is Health Promotion?

• The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health promotion as the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.


• When providing wellness programming, health promotion defines the basic marketing and promotion of risk reduction health programs. These health programs are grounded in the disciplines of social marketing, health communication, business marketing and use of incentives that address consumer health "needs" and customer "wants."

Health promotion/wellness programs Defined

• Comprehensive wellness strategies are based on population health research. Determinates of individual health are attributed to four main factors.
  • 30% of individual's health is based on health behaviors
  • 40% of individual's health is based on social and economic conditions
  • 40% of individual's health is based on physical environments
  • 10% of individual's health is based on good clinical care


• Example of health promotion programs include but are not limited to:
  • Disease management programs
  • Increased productivity
  • Risk reduction
  • Nutrition and exercise
  • Stress management
  • Health coaching
  • Marketing
  • Communications
  • Incentives


• Wellness however is based upon a holistic approach that requires individual transformation delivered through focusing on the 7 dimensions of wellness: Spiritual, Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Career, Environmental, and Social.

What is the Health Care Continuum Concept?

• Introduction to the Health Care Continuum Concept was started In 1970,.by John W. Travis, M.D., MPH. He envisioned the idea for the Illness-Wellness Continuum that placed "wellness" in a revolutionary new context and bridged health and human potential. This early health continuum model bridged the relationship between wellness, medically driven treatment models and high-level wellness

1. Individuals moving from the center or neutral point to the left or treatment model moved to deteriorating states of health and finally premature death.
2. Individuals moving to the right of center increased their levels of health and well-being through awareness, education and wellness growth.
3. One of the core concepts of the continuum was that the Treatment Paradigm could only take individuals back to the neutral point, where the symptoms of disease have been alleviated. The Wellness Paradigm, which could be utilized at any point on the continuum, moved individuals toward higher levels of wellness.

• In 2012, Eddington introduced a new Health Care Continuum Concept in which he emphasized "Instead of aiming for a return to the status quo, a focus on positive health would move us beyond the status quo toward outcomes that exceed expectations. While risk reduction and health maintenance are noble, it is time to move the focus and efforts toward positive health potential through improved physical, mental, and social capabilities."

Who is the Benefit professional?

In larger organizations, the benefit professional works more closely with decision makers to keep the business afloat. They may be or work closely with the Corporate Financial Officer (CFO). They make benefits design based upon real time data analysis, e.g. data mining, in terms of benefit design to save money. In smaller businesses, the benefit design me be done by human resources or outsourced to a broker. See https://www.ifebp.org/

Benefit vs. Human Resource Professionals.

Benefits are different in that they use an actuary approach in using numbers to evaluate the likelihood of future events, and designing creative ways to reduce or manage undesirable events. Benefits role is to “keep the business afloat”. Human resources usually implements benefit plans, hires and motivates employees to perform at their best by exchanging rewards for performance. See http://www.shrm.org/

What is Productivity ROI?

Productivity measurement may provide a better link than disease management to corporate America's bottom line. Example: The Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI) is a pioneer, leader and nonprofit supplier of health and productivity research, measurement and benchmarking. See http://www.ibiweb.org/

What is Value-based Health Care?

VBHC strives to remove barriers and align both financial and non-financial incentives and rewards for living healthy and productive lives by using prevention, (population health) health enhancement strategies (internal policy, rewards & management support) and health care services (prevention and managed care).

Value-based Insurance Design

V-BID is an innovative approach that can improve clinical outcomes and contain costs. The basic premise of V-BID is to align consumer incentives with value by reducing barriers to high-value health services and providers ("carrots" or intrinsic motivation) and discouraging the use of low-value health services and providers ("sticks" or extrinsic motivation). When "carrots" are coupled with "sticks" in a clinically nuanced manner, V-BID improves health care quality and controls spending growth.

The concept of clinical nuance recognizes that:

1. Medical services differ in the benefit provided; and
2. The clinical benefit derived from a specific service depends on the patient using it, as well as when and where the service is provided. See

http://vbidcenter.org/

What is a Wellness Benefit Manager?

This new role combines skill sets of the benefit specialist and the wellness professional with the purpose integration of wellness into benefit design and of enhancing communication. See Abbott Solutions

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Track Your Progress

These assessment plans can help you track your wellness progress

 Assessments for the individual

Standard Individual Account

Includes:

1. Individual Report
2. General Guidelines for Making Healthy Changes
3. Individual vs Group Comparison Report
4. Individual Percentile Report
5. Selected Consumer Resources
6. Level I BYOWC Certificate

Pricing and Ordering

Advanced Individual Account

Includes:

1. Individual can take up to 5 assessments over time
2. Individual Report
3. General Guidelines for Making Healthy Changes
4. Individual/Group Comparison Report
5. Individual Percentile Report
6. Time Tracking Report comparing up to 5 results taken over time
7. Selected Consumer Resources
8. Level II BYOWC Certificate

Pricing and Ordering

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Group Accounts for Employers, Teachers, Wellness Professionals, Trainers, Health Coaches. Wellness professionals, trainers and health coaches will find that 7dimensionsofwellness.com offers complementary options to assist clients in taking the next steps for well being and that of transformation and insights into connection, consciousness and universal human values, a place in which one finds consistency in "head, heart and hands".

Professional Group Free Trial Account

Includes:

1. Ability to create and administer assessments to your own groups
2. Group Aggregate Reports
3. Group Comparison Reports
4. Demographic Breakdown Reports
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Standard Professional Group Account

Includes:

1. Ability to create assessment groups and administer assessments to your own groups
2. Group Aggregate Reports
3. Group Comparison Reports
4. Demographic Breakdown Reports
5. Advanced Ad Hoc Reporting

Pricing and Ordering

Advanced Professional Group Account

Includes:

1. Ability to create and administer assessments to your own groups
2. Ability to create time tracking groups
3. Group Aggregate Reports
4. Group Comparison Reports
5. Demographic Breakdown Reports
6. Time Tracking Reports available for individuals
7. Advanced Ad Hoc Reporting

Pricing and Ordering

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Consulting Services

Benefits Wellness Management Website Wellness Consulting

Resources to grow by

Wellness as a Philosophy

Wellness is a philosophy, a way of living healthy. University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP) has a long history in helping create the wellness movement. The Health Promotion and Wellness (UWSP-HPW) academic program introduced in 1987 and continues to produce professionals with a Health Promotion and Wellness Bachelor of Science degree. Over the last 2 decades, UWSP-Health Promotion and Wellness academic program has promoted that survival of the species requires more than fitness and created the seven dimensions of Wellness.

Why Seven Dimensions

Why seven dimensions you might ask? In 1990 our student marketing class felt it was important to add the dimension of environmental and submitted the first design for a 7 dimensional model. It was felt six dimensions  implied perfect balance, while seven implied fluidness, i.e. we are always in motion, transforming energy, constantly changing as we try stay in a balanced state of homeostasis. As individuals and communities, we embraced this emerging world view of interconnectedness.

Internal/External

Several of the dimensions are specific to internal social, physical, emotional, intellectual mind-body connections. Others, career, environmental and spiritual represent external and we constantly balance between the internal and external as a whole systems healing process.

About Abbott Solutions, Inc.

Abbott Solutions, Inc. was founded by R. Anne Abbott, PhD, an accomplished administrator, published author, and seasoned public speaker and facilitator. Abbott works with caring organizations that desire to successfully bridge efforts between multi-disciplined professionals in order to provide exceptional services to clients, consumers, and employees. Abbott is the Principal Owner of Abbott Solutions, Inc

What is Abbott Solutions

An organized employer-sponsored program that is designed to support employees (and sometime, their families) as they adopt and sustain behaviors that reduce health risks, improve quality of life, enhance personal effectiveness, and benefit the organization's bottom line.� as defined by Leonard L. Berry, Ann M. Mirabito, and William B. Baum in What's the Hard Return on Employee Wellness Programs? Harvard Business Review. Dec. 2010 pp 1-9.

Abbott Solutions, Incorporated was founded by R. Anne Abbott, PhD, an accomplished administrator, published author, and seasoned public speaker and facilitator.  Abbott works with caring organizations that desire to successfully bridge efforts between multi-disciplined professionals in order to provide exceptional services to clients, consumers, and employees. Abbott is the Principal Owner of Abbott Solutions, Inc.

Abbott Solutions, Inc.

• Abbott Solutions, Inc., is a health care management consultant group that supplies strategic planning, operational management expertise, prepares research and response to complex questions.
• Abbott Solutions provides employers objective, customized and cost effective solutions to reduce health care cost, improve return on investment [ROI] and provided wellness program design for your corporate and employee wellness health benefit and wellness plans.
• Current projects include: Professional coaching, consulting, and on-line course development for wellness and benefit professionals desiring to incorporate value based health care management into health benefits and wellness plans.

Experience

• Dr. Abbott is a Professor Emeritus in Health Promotion and Wellness at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP) and serves as a Senior Consultant for the National Wellness Institute, Inc.
• Abbott currently serves on NWI's Board of Directors and on the Academic Accreditation Team for Bachelor's, Master's and PhD level graduate programs with emphasis in Health Promotion and Wellness.
• Abbott continues to serve on the Board of Experts for publication of The Exercise Standards and Malpractice Reporter.
• (1997-2011) Professor and Past Academic Director, UWSP Academic Director, UWSP-University of Wisconsin Extension (2010-2011).
• Contributed wellness and health promotion expertise and leadership to develop on-line learning at UWSP. Worked collaborative with 3 other universities and UW-Extension to develop an on-line bachelor completion degree in Health and Wellness Management (HWM).
• UWSP Director of Health Promotion/Protection Programs (1987- 1997)
• Spearheaded academic curriculum development for training Health Promotion and Wellness, and Health Promotion and Health Protection professional degrees.
• Led innovative professional training program to achieve 3 national "Best Program Awards"
• Created the 7-Dimensions of Wellness Model. 7 Dimensions of Wellness
• Director, Employee Wellness Programs for 1100 university employees (1987-1997) and 3500 hospital employees (1979-1987).

Credentials

• Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh (1981). Exercise Science and Epidemiology
• M.S., Florida State University (1970). Exercise Science
• B.S., East Tennessee State University (1969). Physical and Health Education

Additional Training, Certifications and Recognitions

• International Foundation Education - Benefits- Compensation. Health Benefit Plan Basics, Choice Based Benefits, Health Care Cost Management - Certificate in Health Care Plans.(2013).
• Personality Resources International (PRI), the Color People. Identity Mapping and the Four Ways System. (2012).
• National Wellness Institute, Certified Wellness Practitioner (2009-2014).
• Founding Fellow American Association of Cardio Pulmonary and Rehabilitation (1986)
• American College of Sports Medicine Program Director (1975-2007).
• New England Institute of Gestalt Therapy, Boston (1987).

Papers and Presentations

The Multi-Dimensions of Wellness UWSP Academic History of Wellness History of Workplace Wellness Legacy and Vision: Seven Pioneers of the Wellness Movement Abbott's Legacy of Wellness

What does the Quiz Do?

The SPECIES-7 Dimensions of Wellness Assessment/Quiz is the first step in making Wellness changes.

This requires being aware.

The wellness assessment provides a holistic measure of perception of how one views their wellnees within the seven dimensions. Perception is based upon what the brain believes or perceives to be true. Perception drives the behavioralaction one takes.

The individual Quiz Results Section outlines basic wellness concepts. Examples are given to demonstrate how wellness is a dynamic process and how each dimension is interrelated with the others. Professional Group plans can access Quiz directly and have access to the data for their employees or participants.

Please note the SPECIES - 7 Dimensions of Wellness Assessment/Quiz is not a Biometric/Health Risk Assessment (HRA) or medical base survey.

What does the assessment cover?

The assessment is based upon the 7 dimensions of wellness model: Spiritual, Physical Intellectual, Environmental, and Social

Each dimension has 7 assessment questions in a Likert Scale format. Here is an example:

How long does the total assessment take

Approximately 10-15 minutes

How do you use your wellness quiz

This section encourages and provides simple steps toward taking action. These steps include Awareness and Knowledge, Questioning Self Worth, Shifting Perceptions, and Taking Actions. You can use the SPECIES-7 Dimensions of Wellness Assessment/Quiz to measure wellness progress over time, or simply increase awareness in beginning a wellness program or re-designs of health promotion programs. Basic best practices for health and wellness are supplied by links to the best free Internet resources.

How do "Selected References for Consumers" Work?

Select references help consumers find best and up-to-date information beyond diet and exercise and that are transformational in nature. For example, research in neuroplasticity of the brain currently supports that the brain can be altered by simple meditation techniques when incorporated into a disciplined practice.

Expert presenters provide useful techniques and demonstrations through selected videos, YouTube talks and recommended books. These practices are known to provide personal transformation vs. transactions for participants exploring these methods.

Trust is based upon transactional relationships vs. ROI calculations.

Advanced training centers are also introduced to consumers

Reports: Who can get the data results?

Assessment/Quiz provides 3 levels of report access.

• Individuals taking the Free Assessment– Users can print a basic Individual Report and recommensations
• Advanced Individual Reports– Users have access to their Individual Report and recommendations, an Individual/Group Comparison Report and an Individual Percentile Analysis Report and Time-Tracking Reports.
• Professional Group Plan– Individuals assessment takers get Advanced Individual Reports as described previously. The Plan Administrator has access to aggregated Group Reports, Group Comparison Reports, Demographic Reports and Ad Hoc Filtering Reports. Plan Administrators can also manage their own groups (e.g. departmental) and download all de-identified raw data. While their account is active, Plan Administrators have full access to and own their aggregated data as defined in their individual contracts.

We Supply:

• Free consultation on determining your program and technical needs.
• Free technical assistance in merging SPECIES-7 Dimensions of Wellness Assessment/Quiz into existing health and wellness programs.
• Free on-line technical support for quiz operation.
• Quiz cost are based on volume of use.
• Customization available: Through the Professional Group Plan, employers, consultants, wellness professionals can have access to the data for their employees or participants. Based on volume, or complexity of customer needs, we can customize or adapt this product to individual specifications for a reasonable fee.
• Onsite consulting to integrate wellness and benefits, available on an additional fee basis.