Connecting the Dots Between Health and Well-being, Business, Community, and Prosperity

Pronk, Nico

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“…The health of a business is closely linked to the health of a community. 1,2 The relationship between business and community may be described as symbiotic. 3 On the one hand, businesses contribute to the growth and well-being of their communities by offering employment opportunities and a way for residents to support themselves.…”

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“…4 On the other hand, core community conditions support business operations and growth by providing infrastructure (eg, roads, bridges, Internet, etc), essential services (eg, clean water and air, waste management, etc), public schools, and a healthy population from which the workforce is selected. 1,2,4 In this way, community assets support business in moving their product, provide services, and hire educated and trained people. As a result, business and industry have a vested interest in the health and well-being (HWB) of the communities in which they are located and where they conduct their business.…”

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The Art of Health Promotion: linking research to practice

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Serxner²,

Montalvo³

et al. 2020

Am J Health Promot

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M ost employers understand the importance of measuring and evaluating their health and well-being initiatives. Benefits of an effective evaluation strategy include informing ongoing program improvements and sustaining support from senior decision makers and program funders, 1 but RAND researchers report that only about half of employers who offer wellness programs evaluate them. 2 Moreover, only 50% of employers report their data management and evaluation activities are effective and the most commonly used program evaluation metrics focus on participation rates, physical health risk data, and healthcare utilization/cost data. 3 While such metrics are important, they do not represent the full value of investing in employee well-being. 4 For employers who have a strong evaluation strategy and are regularly collecting data on numerous outcomes, their biggest challenge is often presenting the results in a meaningful way to key stakeholders. 5 Previous issues of The Art of Health Promotion have addressed the need to establish strong program evaluation practices and identified resources to support a comprehensive approach to measurement. 6-8 This issue focuses on how to bring multiple metrics together in a meaningful way to convey a story about the impact and value of the health and well-being initiative to various stakeholders. The first article in the issue provides guidance from a Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) workgroup with recommendations on the development of a Value Demonstration Dashboard for business leaders. This guidance is followed by articles from several employers about the process they used to develop dashboards for various stakeholder groups within their organizations. Kristi Rahrig Jenkins from the University of Michigan shares the process her team used to develop a dashboard that visually summarizes the progress MHealthy is contributing toward established health and well-being goals. Joan Troester and Megan Hammes also describe their dashboard development journey but focus on meeting the needs of University of Iowa Human Resources leaders. It's instructive to note how the metrics featured in the 2 university's dashboards differ based on the unique needs of their stakeholder groups. Sandia National Laboratories provides a third case study that features a more interactive dashboard that allows their Preventive Health team to create division level scorecards to inform ongoing program improvements and enhancements. A final article by Nicolaas Pronk and Matthew Stiefel broadens the discussion by identifying readily available community-level measures that could be incorporated into workplace health and well-being dashboards to align community and workforce well-being efforts. This is particularly important for tracking how corporate organizations can contribute to broader national health goals, such as those that will be represented in the Healthy People 2030 initiative.

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The Art of Health Promotion: linking research to practice

Grossmeier¹,

Serxner²,

Montalvo³

et al. 2020

Am J Health Promot

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Leveraging the Rest of Society: Aligning Healthy People 2030, Well-Being in the Nation, and Other National Health Indicators With Workplace Health and Well-Being

Pronk

Stiefel

2020

Am J Health Promot

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information to the C-Suite as quickly and as often as needed. These dashboards vary per department but generally share monthly or quarterly data on percentages of engagement, trends in use, customer satisfaction, and other quality metrics. All groups share transactional data (how many encounters with patients they had) as well as unique patients (how many individuals they saw) and what percentage of the population they served in addition to certain metrics that are more applicable/important to their specific department. For example, the Preventive Health group will report out on what percentage of the population is enrolled in the incentive program, while the X-ray department will report out on which types of images are most commonly ordered. Each review session is wrapped up with lessons learned, key needs, and risks review per department head. Sandia has transitioned through a few iterations of these 2 tools and will maintain the modification of them as it continually strives to offer state-of-the-art health programs with meaningful results, transforming them as needed to ensure they offer the most up-to-date information possible utilizing the best in class technology and health reporting tools to do so.

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Connecting the Dots Between Health and Well-being, Business, Community, and Prosperity

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The Art of Health Promotion: linking research to practice

The Art of Health Promotion: linking research to practice

Leveraging the Rest of Society: Aligning Healthy People 2030, Well-Being in the Nation, and Other National Health Indicators With Workplace Health and Well-Being

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