Obesity

John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote: “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”  It’s a concept that’s long overdue but now fully ensconced in the field of population health management.  Employee health management (EHM) practitioners, in particular, are coming to understand that the environments in which health promotion interventions occur are a primary determinant of the effectiveness of the interventions.  What’s more, many now fully acknowledge that the sustainability of healthy lifestyle improvements in diet, exercise, or tobacco use is fundamentally linked to our surroundings.  Indeed, in last week’s “HEROForum12”, a conference featuring EHM solutions, a third of the session titles included references to culture.  Moreover, no matter what the topic, the phrase “building a culture of health” was stated at nearly every session. Read more »