The Tri Wellness Approach
The Tri Wellness Approach to total population health management is the key to creating a culture of wellness within your organization.
The Tri Wellness Approach to population health management provides an evidence-based process for creating, delivering, and evaluating your organization’s workplace wellness program. Our three-step wellness approach is neither a “one-size-fits-all” program, nor does it lead to a static program the fizzles and fades in a short period of time. The Tri Wellness Approach helps to create a dynamic, sustainable, and year-round population health management program that achieves real results and creates a culture of wellness within your organization.
The 3-Step Tri Wellness Approach to Population Health Management:
- Assess: Using Health Risk Assessments and Health Screenings, the employee population is assessed to establish a baseline from which to measure progress and report outcomes from your health management program. This step also creates the awareness for both employees and management as the wellness program is launched and the journey toward a culture of wellness begins.
- Educate: Education is the cornerstone of behavior change. In this step of the population health management process, employees are provided with the educational tools that give insight into personal health risks and the actions they can take to lower those risks.
- Engage: This step of the Tri Wellness Approach is more than just getting employees to take action, it's about helping them move from extrinsic participation to intrinsic engagement in the health management program. By the time we arrive at this step, employees know their health risks and they understand how and why to improve their health. It's now time to provide the tools, services, and health promotion initiatives that will begin to create a culture of wellness that leads to individual behavior change.
For employees, the Tri Wellness Approach leads to something that is more than just a health management program; it offers something that is fun, innovative, and creates a sense of community. This, more than anything else, is what leads to the culture of wellness.
The Tri Wellness Approach also incorporates three distinct philosophies that we have about how a population health management program should be structured and how it should be delivered within an organization to create a culture of wellness:
Reverse the Trend
If we accept the fact that the current trend, over time, is for individuals to move from low-risk to high-risk and for the resulting costs to move from low-cost to high-cost, then an organization must prioritize a two-fold strategy of total population health management in order to achieve a culture of wellness. First, it must work to keep the healthy people healthy and prevent them from becoming high-risk and high-cost. Second, it must work to reduce the health risks of the moderate and high-risk groups to help control or reverse the increasing costs.
Fully-Integrated, Results-based Wellness Approach
Tri Wellness believes in a wellness approach that delivers all wellness services in a fully-integrated and results-based manner. Gone are the “splatter-effect” days of the ‘80s and ‘90s when morale-based and activity-based wellness programs were offered to employees in a disconnected manner. With the technology and knowledge available today, we are able to provide a wellness approach that is results-based and offers a population health management strategy that has the direction, purpose, and seamless integration to create a culture of wellness.
Technology Alone Does Not Create a Culture of Wellness
Technology alone will neither create individual behavior change, nor will it create a company-wide culture of wellness. Technology is simply the mechanism through which wellness and health promotion can be communicated and delivered. It takes a wellness approach with the right blend of high-tech and high-touch health promotion initiatives that, when delivered in a targeted and meaningful manner, create the overall culture of wellness that leads to individual behavior change.
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