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Some 130 health and wellness experts – including recreation
and sports leaders and employee and student wellness specialists – from
all UC locations gathered at UCSF on May 5 and 6 to share information
aimed at "Building a Culture of Wellness at UC."
Below are some highlights from the 2008 UC Living Well Summit. Click
on the links to view presentations:
Evaluating Wellness
Efforts
"How Do I Know If What I Am Doing Is Working," presented
by Mike Maniccia, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting, and John
Kessler, Engagement Director, Deloitte Consulting
Some suggestions on how to approach program evaluation in an environment
where perfect information is essentially unattainable.
Healthy Pleasures [video of presentation]
"The Health Benefits of Sensuality, Optimism, and
Altruism," by David Sobel, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Regional
Health Education, The Permanente Medical Group, Inc.
Imagine a medical treatment that lowers blood pressure, decreases
heart disease and cancer risk, boosts immune function, and blocks
pain - a treatment that is safe, inexpensive, readily available,
and whose main side effect is that it making you feel good. It is
not a new miracle drug. These and other benefits appear to come from
pleasure itself, a prescription is filled at the internal pharmacy
of the brain.
Environmental Strategies:
Initiatives to Create a Healthy Campus
Facilitated by Trish Ratto, RD, Health*Matters, UCB
Successful initiatives to create a healthy campus, including UCLA"s
Active Sustainability initiative, UCSF"s Farmers Market, and
UC Berkeley"s healthy vending and meeting guidelines, and tap
water initiative to promote health and sustainability.
Pursuing Your
Wellness Vision with Best Practice Strategies
Presented by David R. Anderson, Ph.D., Vice President,
Program Strategy & Development, StayWell
An overview of past efforts to identify the elements of best practice
programs, new findings from StayWell"s ongoing book-of-business
research, and several client best-practice case studies.
Defining Wellness
for Student Services
Presented by Sabina White, Director, Health Education,
Student Health, UC Santa Barbara
How we can work together
to develop and support wellness at our home campuses and systemwide.
Infusing
Wellness Practices & Concepts Info Student Affairs
Presented by Michael Young, Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs, UC Santa Barbara
How wellness concepts can
be a framework for discussing Student Life issues with students,
as well as interwoven into how we manage our departments.
Spotlight
on Faculty/Staff Wellness Programs
Facilitated by Trish Ratto, RD Health*Matters, UCB
Some
wellness programs you can replicate on your campus: Be Smart About
Safety initiatives at various UC locations; UCI Fuel Up; UCB Health*Matters
for Cal Dining; UCSB"s Zone Exercise Program;
and UCD Campus Recreation"s Fit Squad.
Generations
in the Workplace
Presented by Michael D. Young, Ph.D., Co-chair of the Student
Mental Health Oversight Committee and Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs, UC Santa Barbara
A discussion about how
characteristics of our retiree population to our student
population can inform our wellness thinking and planning
for all populations.
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