The Wellness Plan history

For instance, Hettler’s National Wellness Institute caught the attention of Tom Dickey and Rodney Friedman, who then established the monthly Berkeley Wellness Letter (1984), designed to compete with the Harvard Medical School Health Letter, pointedly using “wellness” in the title as contrast.

In 1986, the OSH started an initiative that emphasized workers’ mental health.

Greiner, P. (1987). Nursing and worksite wellness: Missing the boat.

The modern concept of wellness also spread to Europe, where the German Wellness Association (Deutscher Wellness Verband, DWV) and the European Wellness Union (Europäischen Wellness Union, EWU) were founded in 1990.

More medical establishment validation: in 1991 the United States National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) was established, as part of the government-funded National Institutes of Health.

DeJoy, M., & Southern, J. (1993). An integrative perspective on worksite health promotion.

Reardon, J. (1998). The history and impact of worksite wellness.

The American Board of Physician Specialties, which awards board certification to medical doctors, announced that, in 2014, it would begin accrediting doctors in Integrative Medicine. For example, in 1999, in the US, eight medical institutions (including Harvard and Stanford) convened at a historic conference, The Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine.

Chapman, L. (2004). Expert opinions on “best practices” in worksite health promotion (WHP). American Journal of Health Promotion, 18(6), 1–6.

These include reduced bureaucratic demands, which give easier access to health promotion vendors; better connections between the management and workers, easier communication and, possibly, more empathy towards workers who are seen as “a part of the family” (Divine, 2005).

In 2007, the Wellness Plan Medical Centers received a Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alike designation and began providing direct, primary care services at three medical centers in Detroit – a decision that provided a new life to our organization and a health care lifeline to thousands.

Goetzel, R. Z., & Ozminkowski, R. J. (2008). The health and cost benefits of work site health-promotion programs.

TWP emerged from state oversight on July 28, 2009.

In 2011, The UN General Assembly passed “Resolution Happiness: towards a holistic approach to development,” urging member nations to follow the example of Bhutan and measure happiness and wellbeing and calling happiness a “fundamental human goal.”

2012: On April 1, 2012, the first World Happiness Report was released, now an annual publication of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

Wieczner J. (2013, April 8). Your company wants to make you healthy.

By 2014, more than half of global employers were using health promotion strategies, while a third have invested in full-blown wellness programs (Bucks Consultants report). Medical and self-help experts who promote wellness (such as Drs.

2017: In October, the GWI, along with Doctor Richard H. Carmona, 17th Surgeon General of the United States, announced The Wellness Moonshot: A World Free of Preventable Disease; a call to action to eradicate chronic, avoidable disease worldwide by uniting the health and wellness industries.

2018: In January, the Global Wellness Institute released Build Well to Live Well, the first in-depth research to analyze the $134 billion global wellness real estate and communities sector.

2019: In January, The Wellness MoonshotTM Calendar: A Year of Inspiration was launched in support of The Wellness MoonshotTM: A World Free of Preventable Disease.