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Do Workplace Wellness Programs Make Business Sense?
By Soeren Mattke The press and trade publications strongly endorse workplace wellness programs as a good investment for employers. Soeren Mattke, a physician and RAND senior scientist, explains why his...
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Keas Poll on Workplace Stress and Disease Burden Provides an Education
By VIK KHANNA & AL LEWIS Al’s son once complained to Al’s Aunt Tillie about an overbearing supervisor. Aunt Tillie suggested that he try to work under a different supervisor. Tillie was one of...
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Circulation: The Nineties Called. They Want Their Wellness Policy Back
By AL LEWIS and VIK KHANNA Last year, we soundly criticized the American Heart Association (AHA) on this blog for its proposal to lower the thresholds for treating cholesterol and getting larger...
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The Value of Workplace Health Promotion (Wellness) Programs
By RON GOETZEL The recent Health Affairs Blog post by Al Lewis, Vik Khanna, and Shana Montrose titled, “Workplace Wellness Produces No Savings” has triggered much interest and media attention. It...
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How Stanford Med Got “Work-Life Balance” Wrong
By KAREN SIBERT, MD Did it ever occur to some of today’s physicians that many people work awfully hard and complain a lot less than they do about “burnout” and “work-life balance”? Did it ever occur to...
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The Illness of Work Incapacity
By NORTIN HADLER, MD Etiology, pathogenesis and translational science beat drums to which modern medicine marches – with escalating cadence. Yes, there is cacophony on occasion and missteps, but we all...
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The “Back Story” of the JAMA Wellness Smackdown (Part 1)
By AL LEWIS Let’s climb into the WABAC Machine (and, yes, that’s the way it’s spelled) and set the dial for 2008. Then-candidate Barack Obama, campaigning on the promise of universal health coverage,...
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The “Back Story” of the JAMA Wellness Smackdown (Part 2)
By AL LEWIS Part 2 picks up where Part 1 left off, as coincidence would have it. Soeren Mattke (as mentioned in the last installment) and I were quite relentless in trying, quixotically, to get...
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