East Carolina University
William McPeck, MSW, CWPC, WLCP, CWWS,
Certified Worksite Wellness Program Consultant
Wouldn’t it be great if health and wellness professionals looked for the causes of a better life and higher productivityinstead of the causes of problems? It seems current health professionals have a greater focus on disease and problems than health, well-being, and success.
Today, many think of health as pictured by John Travis’ 1970s Illness–Wellness Continuum that showed early death on one side and high-level wellness on the other (Travis and Ryan, 2004). Even so, to day’s approach to health and wellness is still based on what is wrong, instead of what is right. Pathogenesis, the scientific study of disease origins, has created this focus. Pathogenesis, which measures health by the incidence of problems, has guided the efforts of today’s health professionals.
Success with this approach therefore becomes a return to the status quo through the avoidance or elimination of problems and/or deaths rather than the creation of desired positive outcomes beyond the absence of disease.
http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.nationalwellness.org/resource/resmgr/WhitePapers/NWIWhitePaper_BeckerMcPeck20.pdf
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