Workplace Wellness Revisited
by Fall Ferguson, JD, MA “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”~ Oscar Wilde I planned this blog post as a follow-up to a piece… Read More »Workplace Wellness Revisited
by Fall Ferguson, JD, MA “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”~ Oscar Wilde I planned this blog post as a follow-up to a piece… Read More »Workplace Wellness Revisited
By Fall Ferguson, JD, MA I and others writing for this blog have pointed out some significant problems with our current approach to workplace wellness. Employers have indicated in recent… Read More »Workplace Wellness—What can we do?
by Fall Ferguson, JD, MA Recent news reports have featured stories about U.S. employers instituting “wellness programs” that wind up requiring some employees to pay more for their health insurance… Read More »Workplace Wellness and Weight
by Jon Robison, PhD, MS This is meant as a follow up to the great April 23rd blog—Workplace Wellness and Weight—by Fall Ferguson. As Fall described, employee wellness programs got a huge… Read More »Wellness at the Workplace—The Safeway Debacle
by Fall Ferguson, JD, MA Recent posts to this blog (e.g., this and this) have tried to shed light on the evolving status of employer wellness programs in the US,… Read More »“Non-Discriminatory” Wellness Programs?
by Jon Robison, PhD In Part II of this series (see Part I here), I summarized the traditional approach to promoting health, based on a Mechanistic Worldview and a Biomedical Model… Read More »WHAT’S MISSING? Promoting Health at the Workplace (Part III)
by Jon Robison, PhD In the first part of this 3-part series, we traced the roots of our traditional approach to health promotion and health promotion at the workplace as… Read More »WHAT’S MISSING? Promoting Health at the Workplace (Part II)
by Jon Robison, PhD, MS Like many people in this country, I have a chronic “pre-existing condition” which has me paying exorbitant rates for mediocre health insurance and prohibits me… Read More »WHAT’S MISSING? Promoting Health at the Workplace (Part I)
by Dana Schuster, MS Here I am again, headed into another lions’ den. A lone HAES® believer who will knowingly and with advanced warning, find herself amidst a crowd of… Read More »Dana in the Lion’s Den
by Dr. Jenny Copeland, PsyD From the ASDAH Blog Committee: Last month, the Health At Every Size® Blog initiated a series of “Building Bridges” interviews which will explore the impact… Read More »Building Bridges: Interview with Rebecca Puhl (Part 2)