Continuing Education modules are available to anyone registered on our website or are WellCert graduates.
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CE courses included in the Overview series, each is approx 1 hour in length:
#O-01: How Should You Define Wellness?
This module examines the various major definitions of Wellness , the core concepts and values and the attributes of a good definition for Wellness.
#O-02: Why is “Wellness” Growing in Importance for Employers?
This module highlights the underlying trends that are making Worksite Wellness more important to employers and explores some of the implications of these trends for the employer community.
#O-03: What Are Other Employers Doing About Wellness?
This module covers the results of several major surveys of employer activity around Wellness and then characterizes each major employer sector by size.
#O-04: What Are Health Plans Doing About Wellness?
This module examines national patterns of Wellness activity for major health plan customer sectors and projects some major trends that are likely to affect the health plan marketplace.
#O-05: What are the Critical Economics of Worker Health?
This module provides a detailed look at the primary economic axioms that define worker health.
#O-06: What is the Evidence for the Behavioral Effectiveness of Worksite Wellness?
This module examines some of the findings concerning the behavioral effectiveness of Worksite Wellness programming.
#O-07: What is the Evidence for the Economic Effectiveness of Worksite Wellness?
This module takes a detailed look at the economic efficiency of Worksite Wellness with a special focus on health plan, sick leave, workers’ compensation, disability management and presenteeism costs.
#O-08: What Are the Different Program Models for Worksite Wellness?
This module provides an in-depth look at each of the three major program models for Worksite Wellness: the Quality of WorkLife Model, the Traditional Model and the Population Health Management Model.
#O-09: How Should You Select the “Right” Program Model for Your Organization?
This module provides an in-depth look at each of the three major program models with emphasis on requirements, potential effectiveness, likely results and resource implications.
#O-10: How Can You Ensure that Your Worksite Wellness Program Will be Effective?
This module provides specific direction and details for assuring that your Worksite Wellness program will be effective at changing behavior, mitigating health risks and producing economic return.
#O-11: What Behavioral Targets and Health Risks Should You Address in Your Wellness Program?
This module provides a detailed look at all the potential behavioral targets and health risks that your Wellness program should address and why.
#O-12: What Interventions Work Best for Each Prevention Target?
This module provides an in-depth look at the potential program interventions that work best for each major prevention target that your wellness program could address.
#O-13: What Goals Should Guide Your Wellness Program?
This module provides a detailed look at the possible goals that you might select for your Wellness program and how those goals will likely shape programming activity.
#O-14: What Objectives Should Guide Your Wellness Program?
This module is designed to provide a step-by-step approach to the development of a set of sound program objectives for your Worksite Wellness program.
#O-15: What Level of ROI Should You Expect from Your Worksite Wellness Program?
This module examines the likely level of economic return and ROI that a typical worksite Wellness program will generate along with some general axioms about estimating ROI based on the program’s model.
#O-16: What Kind of Worksite Wellness Program Makes the Most Sense for Your Organization?
This module provides an overview of the three major program models for Worksite Wellness and discuses the characteristics associated with each model along with the attributes that “fit” with each model.
#O-17: What Will the Future of Worksite Wellness Look Like?
This module provides a detailed scenario of the likely future trends and characteristics of the Worksite Wellness field.
The Overview Series offers a broad range of information on wellness best practices. This Series is designed for wellness professionals who have not taken all 4 levels of the WellCert certification program or those who would like a refresher on specific topics. These modules can also be useful in helping build the wellness knowledge of non-wellness professionals in areas like HR, Finance, Benefits and many other related areas.