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Accreditation and Benchmarking
Tricia Barrett, VP, Product Development, NCQA
David Anderson, PhD,
Chairman, Research Committee
Summary:
NCQA
and HERO joined forces to facilitate a webinar on several of today's
most important and critical issues: Wellness Provider Accreditation and
Benchmarking and Best Practice in employee health management.
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Interest in employee health management (EHM)benchmarking and best
practice is increasing. One of the reasons is that it identifies
specific EHM parameters, which can lead to the creation of a
successful program.
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Learn the details about how to use the HERO Scorecard and receive a
complimentary report that compares your best practice score with the
aggregate score of other Scorecard users.
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Evaluate key areas of wellness & health promotion company
performance including how programs are implemented in the work
place, how coaching is provided, and how individual health
information is safeguarded.
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Learn how to make informed decisions when choosing among wellness
and health promotion companies and determine the value of their
services, using evidence based requirements.
Can your
organization afford to fall behind in its understanding of these two key
areas shaping the future of Employee Health Management?
Original air date: 4/27/2010
Watch the Webinar
Obesity in America: Consequences and
Strategies
William Dietz, Md, PhD, Director of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and
Obeisty, CDC
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the webinar
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This recorded event provides a short overview of
the current status of the obesity epidemic in America before turning to
a discussion of the consequences. Dr. Dietz addresses the disease
cost, absenteeism, disability and impact of childhood obesity on the
adult workforce. Next Dr. Dietz turns to a discussion on target
behaviors and priority strategies and explain the current federal, state
and local initiatives focusing on obesity. The floor was then opened to
the live participants for a
question and answer period.
About Dr. William Dietz, MD, PhD
 William
H. Dietz, MD, PhD, is the Director of the Division of Nutrition,
Physical Activity, and Obesity at the CDC. Prior to his appointment to
the CDC, he was a Professor of Pediatrics at the Tuft′s University
School of Medicine, and Director of Clinical Nutrition at the Floating
Hospital of New England Medical Center Hospitals. He received his
medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970 and a Ph.D.
in Nutritional Biochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, a recipient of
the Holroyd-Sherry award from the American Academy of Pediatrics for his
contributions to the field of children and the media, and the recipient
of the 2006 Nutrition Research award from the AAP for outstanding
research in pediatric nutrition.
Original air date: 11/9/2010
*Due to a technical difficulty during recording you will not see the
first slide until approximately 30 seconds into the presentation.
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Obesity in America: Putting Strategies into Practice
John White, PhD,
Global Health Services Prevention and Health Culture Leader, Dow
Chemical Company
Anne Haddix, PhD, Senior Policy Advisor, CDC National Center for
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)
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John White, PhD
Anne Haddix, PhD
Watch the Webinar
Obesity in America: Putting Strategies into
Practice, continues the conversation on the Obesity epidemic.
The session will focus on implementing policies and programs in
the workplace and look at the impact.
These policies and programs seek to change the physical and
social work environment to be more supportive of healthy
behaviors and affect large groups of workers simultaneously. The
environments they aim to create, both at work and in the broader
community, are ones where the healthy choice is the easy choice
to make
Our two speakers represent both the CDC policy and
corporate implementation strategies.
Anne will focus on the impact of the "health in all
policies approach" which looks to integrate health considerations
into societal policymaking across sectors, and at all levels including
public-private partnerships with business, to improve the nation’s
overall population health.
John will focus on the Dow's efforts on Obesity prevention
and reduction. John will discuss the ongoing LightenUp Program at
Dow in the context of their overall Wellness focus.
About Our Speakers
 John
White, PhD
John White, Ph.D. the Global Health Services
Prevention and Health Culture Leader for the Dow Chemical Company. John
is responsible for strategy development, and oversight of prevention and
health based culture, and serves as a leader of Dow's global efforts to
create and sustain a culture that is supportive of health.
John has over 25 years of experience in the
preventative health field where he has served The Dow Chemical Company
and The Institute for Aerobics Research. He earned his Ph.D. in Exercise
Science from the University of Mississippi and a Bachelor of
Administration in Business from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
 Anne C. Haddix, PhD
Anne C. Haddix, PhD is a senior policy advisor for the
CDC National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
(NCCDPHP) where see advises NCCDPHP leadership on various cross-cutting
policy issues related to chronic diseases, including food and nutrition
policy and community transformation.
Prior to joining NCCDPHP, Dr. Haddix served as the
acting director for the Policy Research, Analysis, and Development
Office in CDC's Office of the Associate Director for Policy. There she
provided leadership and perspective on policy development, review, and
analysis Anne joined CDC/ATSDR in 1992 as the
first PhD-trained economist at CDC. where she successfully cultivated
economic analysis as a scientific discipline at CDC, eventually training
more than 2,000 CDC staff and establishing the Prevention Effectiveness
Fellowship program.
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