Deck 14: Building Cultures of Health and Wellness Within Organizations

Question 1

Cultures of health and wellness surround participants with an environment, policies, and cues that lead regularly to healthy choices on both a conscious and unconscious basis.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

A culture of health and wellness leverages all of these population health strategies except

A) Opportunities for physical activity (e.g., walking trails, intermural competitions, fitness centers, yoga, meditation, sponsored events)
B) Policies forbidding the use of tobacco products on the company campus
C) Promoting and perhaps subsidizing healthy choices in cafeterias, restaurants, and vending machines or taxing unhealthy ones
D) Enforcing organizational catering polices that ensures that company events serve healthy food and create safeguards that prevent excessive alcohol consumption
E) Preventing people from being hired based on their poor health

Answer 2

E

Question 3

A culture of health and wellness promotes health throughout the workplace environment. This includes all these except:

A) Social and environmental pressures influence behavior.
B) Offering healthy food options in the cafeteria or vending machines
C) Encouraging shift work and longer work days to allow for more free time during the day
D) Making environments smoke free
E) Encouraging the use of stairwells and walking paths

Answer 3

C

Question 4

A Culture of Health:

A) Utilizes the best marketing tactics-including a branded, coordinated campaign-must be deployed to effectively promote healthy choices.
B) Provides and tracks the progress of risk reduction programs
C) Assures that its participants have easy access to healthcare services.
D) Fosters the use of evidence-based clinical guidelines.
E) All the above

Question 5

A benchmark culture of health can demonstrate that:

A) Their population is getting healthier over time
B) Their population is spending less on medical costs
C) A & B
D) Neither A nor B

Question 6

Most Benchmark Cultures of Health have a clinical leader deploying population health strategies

Question 7

Most Benchmark Cultures of Health achieve their success in one to two years without the need for multi-year strategic planning

Question 8

It is difficult to build an organizational Culture of Health without leadership support and management alignment

Question 9

Aligning health constituents are required to achieve communities of health. This effort includes:

A) payer organizations and health plans and insurance companies,
B) health delivery systems
C) employers
D) public health
E) All the above

Question 10

The correlation between health and wealth has been established at the:

A) Individual level
B) Employer level
C) National level
D) Only A & B
E) A, B & C