Alarming Statistics Approximately 20 million people in the United States have type I or type II diabetes with another 5.1 million undiagnosed. Every 29 seconds, someone in the United States has a heart attack and every minute someone dies of a heart attack. Arthritis affects more than 15% of the U.S. population, approximately 43 million people. Asthma affects an estimated 14.9 million persons and causes over 1.5 million emergency department visits, 500,000 hospitalizations, and over 5,500 deaths annually. About 20 million adults in the U.S. suffer from depression each year, and up to 25% of all women and 12% of all men in the U.S. will experience major depression. Over one million people get cancer each year. Approximately 1/2 of American men and 1/3 of American women will have some type of cancer during their lifetime. The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that currently 800,000 to 900,000 people in the United States are currently living with AIDS.

A New look at Health Education!

Wellness on Demand! aims to improve the management of chronic disease within primary care practices by educating patients directly and empowering them to assist their physicians in the management of their own conditions.

Much Needed Changes

One look at the growing epidemic of serious health problems in America and abroad is enough to see we need a new way to educate the masses regarding health and disease management. Wellness on Demand! is one effort to address this crying need.

In order to have a significant social impact, Wellness on Demand! has undertaken the following tasks:

Develop a multimedia approach to the delivery of culturally sensitive health information to consumers. Intervention strategies will be used to improve the knowledge, attitude, self-care skills and healthy behaviors necessary to achieve an objective improvement in chronic disease (i.e. Diabetes, heart disease, asthma, HIV/AIDS, cancer, depression, arthritis, etc.)

Develop and implement multimedia educational workshops to various ethnic populations. Workshops will initially be provided in English, Spanish, and French.

Develop and implement multimedia interactive Health Care Education Centers located in primary care physician offices and health care institutions. An educational Internet site for viewing of consumer oriented medical presentations via cable and web cast will be developed. These education centers will be equipped with either high-speed Internet or Cable connection with access to public broadcasting stations. These Education Centers will enable participants to experience a broad range of multimedia health content specific to chronic disease. The interactive website will be programmed to deliver audio, video, text and animated content.

Identify existing linguistically appropriate education materials and develop new materials to enhance compliance with disease state management goals. Educational materials will focus on the enhancement of behavioral change strategies.

Use telemedicine interventions (telephone calls and radio programming) to provide participants with ongoing follow-up and clinical goal attainment of diabetes and CVD.

Develop and implement an evaluation and monitoring plan to obtain and organize outcome data generated during the education workshops.

Wellness on Demand!™ Medical Nutrition Therapy (Patients)

Wellness on Demand!™ Disease State Management

Training Advanced Training for Healthcare Professionals on chronic disease management. Focus is on medication adjustments and behavioral change strategies. These courses can be delivered live, complete with guest speakers and full-interactive capability or online.

Wellness on Demand!™ Health Education Video Series
(Patients)

Healing Our Village is dedicated to delivering quality patient health education, especially to the underserved segments of the population, generally minorities. We have created a series of education videos that target specific chronic illnesses including diabetes, asthma, HIV/Aids, and congestive heart failure. The videos are available in multiple languages and can be made readily available for Patient use in the Primary Care Physicians’ office, healthcare clinic or on the Internet that are available in multiple languages to suit our Clients’ populations. Using today’s technologies, we make accessing these educational materials a snap!

Wellness on Demand!™ Corporate Wellness

Reducing healthcare insurance costs and maintaining employee retention are challenges companies of all size are facing. Studies show that employees who participate in corporate wellness programs have more favorable claims experience. Our Corporate Wellness program offers a wide variety of products and services to create or complement an existing program. The Wellness on Demand!™ Health Education Video Series is included as an option, allowing for multicultural inclusion.