ACSM Health & Fitness Summit

2013 ACSM Health & Fitness Summit

Trends and Opportunities in Worksite Health Promotion

Charlie Estey, MS

Health Solutions, Owings Mills, Maryland

E-mail: [email protected]

Nico Pronk, Ph.D.

HealthPartners, Minneapolis, Minnesota

E-mail: [email protected]

I. Introduction

a. Presentation outline and objectives

II. What’s a trend...what’s a fad?

a. What is the current state of the field?

b. What is driving change in the field?

i. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

ii. The Accountable Care Organization initiatives

iii. The [leading] obesity epidemic

iv. The [lagging] diabetes epidemic

v. The overriding concerns about costs

1. Medical care costs


2. Productivity-related costs
   vi. Society’s rate of change

III. Identify key trends and opportunities in worksite health promotion

a. Mega-trends

i. BIG DATA

ii. Use of innovative technologies

b. What’s right and what works

i. Evidenced-based guidelines

ii. High touch or high tech

iii. Self-directed or group

iv. High cost versus low cost (what has greatest impact)