As one of the nation’s leading corporate health and wellness program consulting companies we assist our clients in their efforts to find the best health and wellness programs for their specific needs. Where most wellness companies take a cookie cutter approach to wellness programs, Infinite Health Coach believes in tailoring health and wellness solutions to create highly personal wellness programs that fit the corporate culture of the organizations with which we work.
Infinite Health Coach is associated with more than 150 different wellness companies and can provide virtually any style of wellness coach, health coach and / or executive coach available and can deliver coaching services via virtually any delivery model available, including face-to-face coaching. Because of our association with so many different wellness companies we can provide wellness coaching and health coaching services via numerous behavioral change models including those based in the following: motivational interviewing, positive framing, Prochaska’s transtheoretical model of change, self-efficacy and more.
A Wellness Coach / Health Coach Can Assist With: Weight Management / Healthy Eating Tobacco Cessation / Smoking Cessation Fitness and Exercise Stress Management Work-Life Balance Parent – Child Assistance Assistance Managing Chronic Conditions Like: Back Pain High cholesterol Cardiovascular Disease Diabetes Asthma High Blood Pressure Metabolic Syndrome Corporate Wellness Programs and Services: Health Risk Assessments / Health Risk Appraisals Online Health and Wellness Tools Employee Assistance Programs Onsite Biometric Testing / Employee Health Screening Drug Testing Services Nurseline Employee Wellness Incentive Programs Wellness Seminars / Lunch and Learns Behavioral Change Programs Employee Wellness Newsletters Wellness Calendars Self Care Books and Self Care Training Gym Discounts What is health coaching?
Health coaching is a collaborative and personalized program that focuses on improving health and wellness. Health Coaching builds an individual’s capacity to achieve short- and long-term health and fitness goals. Participants in a health coaching program interact one-on-one with their health coach by telephone, instant messenger, email and online journal.
Unlike personal training or counseling, YOU, the client, are the expert when working with a health coach. Whether you’re working toward general wellness or a more specific health-related issue, a health coach will focus on enhancing your quality of life. Our health coaches guide, motivate, provide customized resources, and help you to set achievable goals. Health Coaches do not diagnose, prescribe, or give advice. Instead health coaches use their expertise to provide you with tools, not opinions.
The role of a health coach is unique. A health coach will not just ask you if you have done your crunches for the day UNLESS that is what you want your health coach to do. Instead, the health coach is there to help you identify and achieve whatever goals you set for improved vitality by coordinating the many resources available to you through this and other programs.
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Guidelines for Health Risk Appraisals
December 16th, 2009Health Risk Appraisals are tools that identify and quantify an individual’s risk of morbidity or mortality using demographic, medical and lifestyle information. “Health Risk Appraisals and Medicare”, an evaluation report completed by RAND for CMS, reached the following conclusions.
• Effective Health Risk Assessment (HRA) programs have demonstrated beneficial effects on behavior, physiological variables and general health status
• Interventions that combine Health Risk Assessment (HRA) feedback with the provision of Wellness Plans are most likely to show beneficial effects
• To be effective, Health Risk Assessment (HRA) questionnaires ought to be accompanied by follow-up interventions (e.g., information, support and referrals)
High quality Health Risk Appraisals offer, a computation for individual risk from the following most common diseases and health risk factors.
• Chronic Asthma
• COPD
• Diabetes
• High Blood Pressure
• Ischemic heart disease
• Major depression
• Stroke
• Overweight and obesity
• Use of Tobaccos Products
• Mental health
• Immunizations
The Health Risk Assessment (HRA) collects and analyzes data to predict a individual’s likelihood of experiencing the most common diseases.
Health Risk Appraisals: Demographic characteristics
An individual’s age, sex and ethnicity are indicators of increased risk for certain diseases or conditions. At minimum, the Health Risk Assessment (HRA) ought to collect information, to the extent allowed by law, information on the individual’s age, sex and ethnicity.
The Health Risk Assessment (HRA) ought to include questions addressing the individual’s personal and family history of diseases or risk factors for common diseases or conditions. The Health Risk Assessment (HRA) must include questions to assess health risks related to the personal health characteristics and behaviors listed below.
• Weight
• Diet and Nutrition
• Use of Tobaccos Products
• High Blood Pressure
• Cholesterol
• Physical Fitness
• Alcohol Use
• Traveling by motor vehicle
• Stress Management
• Mental health
Perceived Health Status
The Health Risk Assessment (HRA) ought to include questions that assess An individual’s self-perceived health status. The questions ought to allow an individual to rate their own health status on a relative scale.
Disclosure of use of Health Risk Assessment (HRA) information
The business ought to disclose how the information obtained from the Health Risk Assessment (HRA) will be used and to whom it’ll be disclosed. The business may offer the disclosure and use information within the Health Risk Assessment (HRA) tool or reports or through written communications.
Ability to save/print Health Risk Assessment (HRA) results
Internet-based Health Risk Assessment (HRA) ought to give the individual the ability to save/print his/her Health Risk Assessment (HRA) results. For paper-based Health Risk Appraisals, the business ought to have a mechanism in place for the individual to receive a written copy of the results.
Health Risk Assessment (HRA) Results
Companies ought to offer a printed/printer-friendly web-based report for each individual participant. The report may emphasis on either individual risks for specified diseases or on Wellness.
Health Risk Assessment (HRA) computations may emphasis on either individual risks based on personal risk factors or on overall risk or health. The report ought to offer an explanatory information to assist them understand the outcome. Reports ought to clearly identify specific behaviors that can lower risk for each risk factor, and recommend targets for improvement. Reports ought to include resources (e.g., community programs, web-based resources and materials) that can assist individuals change to a healthier lifestyle. At minimum, the business ought to offer computation for individual risk from the following most common diseases and health risk factors.
• Chronic Asthma
• COPD
• Diabetes
• High Blood Pressure
• Ischemic heart disease
• Major depression
• Stroke
• Overweight and obesity
• Use of Tobaccos Products
• Mental health
• Immunizations
Health Risk Assessment (HRA) report
The Health Risk Assessment (HRA) ought to offer web-based print-friendly results and the ability for the user to print the results. The Health Risk Assessment (HRA) report ought to include a profile of individual risk level for personal diseases or conditions according to age, sex, ethnicity and health risk factors that were identified in the questionnaire. The report ought to clearly identify specific behaviors that can lower the risk for each risk factor and recommend targets for improvements.
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By: Ravi Verma
