A platform for population-based weight management: description of a health plan-based integrated systems approachNicolaas P Pronk
Center for Health Promotion, HealthPartners, Minneapolis, Minn 55440, USA
Am J Manag Care 8:847-57. 2002
..To describe an integrated, operational platform from which mail- and telephone-based health promotion programs are implemented and to specifically relate this approach to weight management programming in a managed care setting...
- The association between work performance and physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and obesity
Nicolaas P Pronk
Center for Health Promotion, HealthPartners, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440 1309, USA
J Occup Environ Med 46:19-25. 2004
..It is concluded that lifestyle-related modifiable health risk factors significantly impact employee work performance...
Health care charges associated with physical inactivity, overweight, and obesityLouise H Anderson
HealthPartners Research Foundation, 8100 34th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1309, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 2:A09. 2005
..The objective of this study was to estimate the proportion of total health care charges associated with physical inactivity, overweight, and obesity among U.S. populations aged 40 years and older...
- Offering telephone counseling to smokers using pharmacotherapy
Raymond G Boyle
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 7:S19-27. 2005
..The results varied by gender and amount smoked. In addition, the variables associated with quitting in a multivariate logistic regression model included older age and using more than 30 days of medication...
- Population reach and recruitment bias in a maintenance RCT in physically active older adults
Brian C Martinson
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, USA
J Phys Act Health 7:127-35. 2010
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- A new approach to physical activity maintenance: rationale, design, and baseline data from the Keep Active Minnesota Trial
Nancy E Sherwood
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, USA
BMC Geriatr 8:17. 2008
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- Meeting recommendations for multiple healthy lifestyle factors. Prevalence, clustering, and predictors among adolescent, adult, and senior health plan members
Nicolaas P Pronk
Center for Health Promotion, HealthPartners Research Foundation, HealthPartners, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Am J Prev Med 27:25-33. 2004
..Such data may guide both clinical and health policy decision making and person-centered approaches to population health improvement...
- Proactive recruitment of health plan smokers into telephone counseling
Raymond G Boyle
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 9:581-9. 2007
..Although other variations of this approach might be tested, we suspect that it might be more useful to test innovative ways to influence the factors we identified as being most strongly predictive of lack of successful quitting...
Adherence to optimal lifestyle behaviors is related to emotional health indicators among employeesNicolaas P Pronk
JourneyWell, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440 1309, USA
Popul Health Manag 14:59-67. 2011
..While causality cannot be inferred, the strength of the associations warrants trials to determine the extent to which adopting positive lifestyles can result in improved mental health...
- Satisfaction with a weight loss program: what matters?
Jeffrey J VanWormer
Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55407, USA
Am J Health Promot 24:238-45. 2010
..Satisfaction is understudied in weight loss programs. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between participant/program experiences and satisfaction with a weight loss intervention...
- Characteristics of adults who use prayer as an alternative therapy
PATRICK J O'CONNOR
HealthPartners Research Foundation, PO Box 1524, MS 23302G, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Am J Health Promot 19:369-75. 2005
..To describe the demographics, health-related and preventive-health behaviors, health status, and health care charges of adults who do and do not pray for health...
- The association between optimal lifestyle adherence and short-term incidence of chronic conditions among employees
Nicolaas P Pronk
JourneyWell, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1309, USA
Popul Health Manag 13:289-95. 2010
..Employers and payers should consider this fact when formulating policy or allocating resources for health care and health promotion...
- Knowledge of energy balance guidelines and associated clinical care practices: the U.S. National Survey of Energy Balance Related Care among Primary Care Physicians
Nicolaas P Pronk
HealthPartners and HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Prev Med 55:28-33. 2012
..To assess primary care physicians' (PCPs) knowledge of energy balance related guidelines and the association with sociodemographic characteristics and clinical care practices...
- Recruitment to mail and telephone interventions for obesity in a managed care environment: the Weigh-To-Be project
Robert W Jeffery
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, Minn 55454, USA
Am J Manag Care 10:378-82. 2004
..To evaluate the success of mail- and telephone-based weight loss programs in recruiting a representative sample of overweight members of a managed care organization (MCO)...
- Preventing and managing cardiometabolic risk: the logic for intervention
Mark A Pereira
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454 1015, USA
Int J Environ Res Public Health 6:2568-84. 2009
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- Self-weighing promotes weight loss for obese adults
Jeffrey J VanWormer
Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55407, USA
Am J Prev Med 36:70-3. 2009
..Not all experts agree on its utility, and the literature supporting its effectiveness is somewhat limited by methodologic shortcomings related to the subjective assessment of self-weighing frequency...
- Telephone-based counseling improves dietary fat, fruit, and vegetable consumption: a best-evidence synthesis
Jeffrey J VanWormer
HealthPartners Center for Health Promotion, PO Box 1309, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1309, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 106:1434-44. 2006
..At present, telephone-based counseling may best be used as a complement to clinical care and a means to broaden the outreach of nutrition services...
- The association between health assessment-derived summary health scores and health care costs
Nicolaas P Pronk
HealthPartners, Minneapolis, MN 55440, USA
J Occup Environ Med 53:872-8. 2011
..To study the association between summary health scores and health care costs in the following year...
- The Use of Telehealth Technology in Assessing the Accuracy of Self-Reported Weight and the Impact of a Daily Immediate-Feedback Intervention among Obese Employees
Nicolaas P Pronk
HealthPartners, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1309, USA
Int J Telemed Appl 2011:909248. 2011
..The discrepancy between self-reported and measured body weight appears to be relatively small, may be improved through daily self-monitoring using immediate-feedback telehealth technology, and negligibly impacts change in body weight...
- Physical activity promotion as a strategic corporate priority to improve worker health and business performance
Nicolaas P Pronk
JourneyWell, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1309, USA
Prev Med 49:316-21. 2009
..The increasingly sedentary nature of work and its impact on health and productivity indicators demands the promotion of physical activity at the worksite...
- Frequency of physician-directed assistance for smoking cessation in patients receiving cessation medications
Leif I Solberg
HealthPartners and HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:656-60. 2005
..Little is known about current physician-patient interactions regarding smoking cessation when a prescription is given for cessation medications...
- Lifestyle behavior change and coronary artery disease: effectiveness of a telephone-based counseling program
Jeffrey J VanWormer
HealthPartners Center for Health Promotion, PO Box 1309, Mailstop 21111H, Minneapolis, MN 55440-1309, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 36:333-4. 2004
- Tobacco cessation interventions in dental networks: a practice-based evaluation of the impact of education on provider knowledge, referrals, and pharmacotherapy use
Darla Havlicek
HealthPartners Health Behavior Group, Minneapolis, Minn, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 3:A96. 2006
..g., sharing of project data, weekly newsletters, discussion at clinic meetings). Results indicate that this approach to addressing tobacco dependence in a dental clinic setting can effectively change dental provider knowledge and action...
- The comparative effectiveness of heart disease prevention and treatment strategies
Thomas E Kottke
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440 1524, USA
Am J Prev Med 36:82-88. 2009
..Policymakers must be able to calculate the comparative effectiveness of interventions to control heart disease if they are to optimize the population impact of programmatic initiatives...
- Physical activity promotion in business and industry: evidence, context, and recommendations for a national plan
Nicolaas P Pronk
JourneyWell, the Dept of Health Promotion, HealthPartners Research Foundation, HealthPartners, Bloomington, MN, USA
J Phys Act Health 6:S220-35. 2009
..It is the purpose of this paper to outline an evidence-based approach to promote physical activity in the business and industry sector in support of a National Physical Activity Plan...
- Readiness of US health plans to manage cardiometabolic risk
Thomas E Kottke
HealthPartners Research Foundation, 8170 33rd Ave S, PO Box 1524, MS 21111R, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 6:A86. 2009
..Our goal was to determine health plan interest in and ability to provide CMR control services...
- Addressing multiple behavioral risk factors in primary care. A synthesis of current knowledge and stakeholder dialogue sessions
Nicolaas P Pronk
HealthPartners, Center for Health Promotion, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Am J Prev Med 27:4-17. 2004
..Multiple perspectives and broad insight are urgently needed to gain a deeper understanding of the interacting scientific, systems, and policy issues associated with multiple risk factor interventions (MRFIs)...
- Reducing occupational sitting time and improving worker health: the Take-a-Stand Project, 2011
Nicolaas P Pronk
Journey Well, HealthPartners, Mail Stop 21111H, PO Box 1309, 8170 33rd Ave South, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1309, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 9:E154. 2012
..Prolonged sitting time is a health risk. We describe a practice-based study designed to reduce prolonged sitting time and improve selected health factors among workers with sedentary jobs...
- Identifying individuals at risk for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus
Teresa L Pearson
Partners for Better Health Integration, Center for Health Promotion, HealthPartners, 8100 34th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1309, USA
Am J Manag Care 9:57-66. 2003
..To describe a population-based approach to the identification of individuals at high risk for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM)...
- The simple health system rules that create value
Thomas E Kottke
HealthPartners Research Foundation, 8170 33rd Ave S, PO Box 1524, MS 21111R, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 9:E49. 2012
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- Smoking cessation attempts in relation to prior health care charges: the effect of antecedent smoking-related symptoms?
Brian C Martinson
HealthPartners Research Foundation, 8100 34th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Am J Health Promot 18:125-32. 2003
..We hypothesize that elevated charges among former smokers reflect differential cessation of sicker individuals. We ascertained the relationship between prior health care charges and time to smoking cessation...
- A randomized trial of telephone counseling with adult moist snuff users
Raymond G Boyle
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440, USA
Am J Health Behav 28:347-51. 2004
..To evaluate telephone counseling for moist snuff use...
- Complementary and alternative medicine use among health plan members. A cross-sectional survey
Carolyn M Gray
Center for Health Promotion, HealthPartners, Minneapolis, Minn 55440-1309, USA
Eff Clin Pract 5:17-22. 2002
..CONCLUSION: CAM use is highly prevalent among health plan members. CAM users report more physical and emotional limitations than do nonusers. CAM does not seem to be a substitute for conventional preventive health care...
- Physical activity optimizing practice through research
Thomas E Kottke
The Heart Center, Regions Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Am J Prev Med 31:S8-10. 2006
- Effects of major depression on moment-in-time work performance
Philip S Wang
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:1885-91. 2004
..The authors used the experience sampling method to address this problem by collecting comparative data on moment-in-time work performance among service workers who were depressed and those who were not depressed...
- Self-weighing in weight gain prevention and weight loss trials
Jennifer A Linde
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis 55454 1015, USA
Ann Behav Med 30:210-6. 2005
..Although self-monitoring is a central tenet of behavioral approaches to changing health behavior, clinical and public health recommendations for better controlling body weight do not emphasize weight self-monitoring...
- Effects of efforts to increase response rates on a workplace chronic condition screening survey
Philip S Wang
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Med Care 40:752-60. 2002
..Confirmation of these results is required, however, in new samples. Additional research is also needed on innovative and cost-effective strategies to improve HRA response rates...
