Archive for September, 2007
I love that statement. I ran across it when reading about Nike’s recent shoe designed specifically for Native Americans. The most surprising fact:
It will be distributed solely to American Indians; tribal wellness programs and tribal schools nationwide will be able to purchase the shoe at wholesale price and then pass it along to individuals, often [...]
Greetings, dear reader! I’m taking a quick timeout to explain the layout of this site. No one out there in the blogosphere seems to do this, which is unfortunate because I often find a lot of great resources on main blog pages!
I recently updated the theme of this site to a very clean and simple [...]
As I’ve delved into the world of corporate wellness, I’ve found that there a lot of words for it. So far, I’ve discovered:
corporate wellness!
worksite health promotion
occupational health
workplace wellness
employee wellness
employee health management
health and productivity management
And the list, no doubt, goes on.
Occupational health is probably the original place that the move towards corporate wellness started. As [...]
To conclude the series of ideas to apply a naturopathic approach to corporate wellness, I’ll tackle the sixth and final principle of naturopathy: prevention. The naturopathic physician recognizes the fact that the goal of healthcare is not only treatment of disease, but ultimately the prevention of disease. To meet this goal, the naturopath works with [...]
Hopefully, I’m showing a bit of a pattern here. In the first four posts of this series, I’ve emphasized a naturopathic approach to corporate wellness, through the six guiding principles of naturopathy. The one principle that has been present within my thought process so far but that hasn’t been called out explicitly is doctor as [...]
Treat the whole person. In the case of my first naturopathic experience, I was a bit taken aback by the amount of time and effort made by the doctor to understand the totality of my problem. Not only did she want to identify the root cause, she sought to explore the entirety of my being [...]
