Wellness and spa tourism has increasingly become an important economic and marketing strategy for hoteliers, resorts and tourist destinations to attract tourist visitations. Deep understanding of ...consumer profiles and their key motivations within this context is vital in order to sustain the growth of wellness and spa tourism business. This paper presents an exploratory study that seeks to understand the spa and wellness tourists’ motivation during their visits to spa and wellness service centers in Slovenia. The purpose of this research is to examine the characteristics of a healthy-living market segment and its motivational behavior to wellness facilities in Slovenia. The paper provides the broad understanding of wellness and spa tourists’ profiles in Slovenia and the key motivation factors
Obtaining resources for sustainability of academic nursing centers is an ongoing challenge. Academic wellness centers face challenges related to the limited availability of insurance to meet demand ...and resources for state and local contracts or fee for service. Traditionally, state and local contracts and fee-for-service insurance plans do not cover preventive or wellness-related health services. In addition, third party reimbursement for wellness, disease prevention and health promotion, and health education services may be limited because of Current Procedural Terminology codes. An approach toward sustainability of the Duquesne University School of Nursing Nurse-Managed Wellness Center was to build on the human resources of volunteer retired nurses residing in the neighboring communities of the university.This article describes the RN+WIN program as a creative approach toward sustainability of an academic nurse—managed wellness center.
An educational program for cancer patients is reported that focuses specifically on the interpretation of their surgical pathology reports. In this program, features of the surgical pathology report ...that are important to an understanding of the biology, prognosis, and therapy of the different forms of cancer are explained to the patients. Individual interaction of each patient with an experienced surgical pathologist, who serves as the program moderator, permits frank discussion about aspects of cancer diagnosis that are of particular interest to these patients, but that are not routinely addressed during their disease management. Opportunities are provided for periodic follow-up with the moderator in order to address any additional questions or concerns that arise regarding subsequent surgical pathology reports.
Objective: The purpose of this article is to review a crisis intervention using the developmental-ecological protocol (Collins and Collins, 2005) with a college student presenting with symptomatology ...of an active eating disorder. Participants: Participants included University Wellness Center employees responding to the crisis. Methods: Methods include an informal review of the crisis intervention response and application of the ABCDE developmental-ecological crisis model. Results: Results reported include insight into crisis intervention when university counseling and health center is not available as resources. Conclusions: ABCDE Developmental-ecological model recommendations for university faculty and staff are included.
Wellness se pojavljuje posljednjih godina na svjetskom turističkom tržištu kao jedan od značajnih hotelskih proizvoda. Vrlo oštra konkurencija nameće postizanje i održavanje određene kvalitete ...hotelskih wellness centara. Kvaliteta i
diferenciranost hotelske wellness ponude kao i higijenski standardi hotelskih wellness centara elementi su opstanka i konkurentnosti na svjetskom turističkom tržištu. Značajan broj hotelskih wellness centara u Republici Hrvatskoj ne odgovara
svjetskim standardima na koje su zahtjevni inozemni turisti navikli. Cilj ovog rada je ukazati na nužnost izrade pisanih protokola kao obaveznog dijela u provedbi higijenskih standarda u wellness centrima u Republici Hrvatskoj, Hipoteze u ovom radu glase: H1 - većina hotela (više od 50%) ne posjeduje certifikate ISO 9001-2008; H2 - većina hotela (više od 50%) ne posjeduje definirane higijenske standarde u wellness centrima; H3 - većina hotela (više od 50%) ne posjeduje zapis o higijenskom odravanju wellness centara uz potpis odgovorne osobe. Navedeno ima za posljedicu ugrožavanje konkurentnosti hotelskih wellness centara u Republici Hrvatskoj na međunarodnoj razini. Jasna definicija i primjena higijenskih standarda povećava kvalitetu hotelskih wellness centara i utječe na zdravstvenu sigurnost korisnika
usluga, a time i na ukupno ostvarene prihode hotela.
As the shift to ambulatory care increases, many established acute care facilities are searching for ways to serve their communities more effectively, to maintain their position in the market--and to ...ensure continuing, healthy revenue streams. This article explores some of the issues faced by such an institution in a rapidly growing market in the Southeast. For this article, we refer to it as Metropolitan Hospital.
Background:
The National Health Policy 2017 has envisioned the integration of Health and Wellness Centers (HWCs) into India’s healthcare system as part of Ayushman Bharat. In February 2018, the ...Indian Government declared the transformation of 1,50,000 existing Sub Health Centers and Primary Health Centers into Health and Wellness Centers (HWCs) to provide Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC). Health and Wellness Centres have an important role in the prevention of several diseases and health promotion and in undertaking public health functions in the community to strengthen the frontline workers and community platforms.
Objective:
To assess the availability of Infrastructure and 12 comprehensive primary health care services in study centres (HWC-SHC) in Raipur district
Methodology:
This is a cross-sectional observational study conducted in the 32 Health and wellness centre-sub centres of Raipur district, Chhattisgarh. In the Raipur district, there are 4 blocks and from each block, 25% of the study centres (HWC-SHC) are selected by simple random sampling. Semi- structured assessment tool with the reference of Government of India Operational Guidelines was used which consisted of checklist regarding Physical Infrastructure, Human Resource, Medicine, Diagnostic, IT component and 12 comprehensive primary health care services. The data was collected and analysis is being done by using SPSS software.
Results:
Out of 32 HWC-SHCs, 6 (18.75%
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were catering the services for the population as per the norms i.e. 3000- 5000. In the present study, 19 (59.4%) boundary wall, and 21 (65.6%) of SCs had wellness space. There were 31 (96.9%) of SCs had labor room, and 14 (43.8 %) had newborn care corner (NBCC). In this study, 21.9% Grievance board and 100% of IEC were present at the studied subcentres. It was observed that 31(96.9%) SCs had water, 27 (84.4%) had electricity supply and 1 (3.1%) of SCs had power backup. Separate public utilities for males and females were available in 2(6.3%) of the study centres. Out of the study sub-centre, 28 (87.5%) residential facilities were available, out of which 24 (85%) were occupied. For diagnostic services, 53.1 % of study centres have sickle- cell rapid tests and none of the centres have VIA for Screening of cervical cancer.
Conclusion:
The finding of the study shows that there is a scarcity in the physical infrastructure, Human resource and lab-diagnostic services at the studied centres. The major factor contributing to the non-utilization of health services at the SCs was the lack of adequate infrastructure, and logistics available at these centres.
The literature pertaining to community-based hospice wellness centres, especially concerning program evaluation, is sparse. This article describes the development and implementation of a ...mixed-method, rapid needs assessment for a nonprofit community-based hospice wellness centre in Ontario, Canada. As part of the needs assessment, a survey and focus groups were performed to elicit responses from service users. Individuals registered for services and wellness centre attendees were asked about their needs, opinions, and preferences to help guide future program and service options. Findings and recommendations are presented for programming and service options, and implications for future program evaluation projects are discussed. The methodology of this time and cost-efficient evaluation provides insights that can be utilized by other hospice wellness centres facing similar challenges of time, money, and program evaluation expertise constraints. The findings and recommendations may inform program and service offerings at other Canadian hospice wellness centres.
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