A population health approach to workplace mental health: rationale, implementation and engagement

ObjectivesTo describe a population health-based program to support employee and dependent mental health and learn from engagement trends.MethodsRetrospective analysis of a program utilizing an assessment of mental health risk. For scoring “at risk,” a Care Concierge is offered to connect users with resources.ResultsParticipation was offered to 56,442 employees and dependents. Eight thousand seven hundred thirty-one completed the assessment (15%). Of those, 4,644 (53%) scored moderate or higher. A total of 418 (9%) engaged the Care Concierge. Factors that negatively influenced the decision to engage care included bodily pain, financial concerns. Positive influences were younger age, high stress, anxiety, PTSD and low social support.ConclusionProactive assessment plus access to a Care Concierge facilitates mental healthcare utilization. Several factors influence likelihood to engage in care. A better understanding of these factors may allow for more targeted outreach and improved engagement

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) Conference and Expo

Meeting Abstracts: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) Conference and Expo Clearwater Beach, FL, USA. 9-11 June 201

The benefits of strength training on musculoskeletal system health: practical applications for interdisciplinary care

Global health organizations have provided recommendations regarding exercise for the general population. Strength training has been included in several position statements due to its multi-systemic benefits. In this narrative review, we examine the available literature, first explaining how specific mechanical loading is converted into positive cellular responses. Secondly, benefits related to specific musculoskeletal tissues are discussed, with practical applications and training programmes clearly outlined for both common musculoskeletal disorders and primary prevention strategies

Elliptic approximations to prescribed mean curvature surfaces in Finsler geometry

We approximate a hypersurface Sigma with prescribed anisotropic mean curvature with solutions u(epsilon), of suitable nonlinear elliptic equations depending on a small parameter epsilon > O. We work in relative geometry, by endowing R-N with a Finsler norm phi describing the anisotropy. The main result states that Sigma and (u(epsilon) = 0) are close of order epsilon(2)/log epsilon/(2), and this estimate is optimal. This is obtained for two different elliptic equations by sub- and supersolutions technique, under smoothness and nondegeneracy assumptions on Sigma. Basic steps are: (i) an explicit computation of the second variation of the phi-Minkowski content along geodesics; (ii) the definition of a Laplace-Beltrami operator on Sigma; (iii) the expansion of the phi-mean curvature of Sigma in a suitable tubular neighbourhood

The multiphase mumford-shah problem

We perform a rigorous analysis of the multiphase version of the Mumford--Shah functional. A characteristic property of the formulation is the presence of a true partition of the image (so in two dimensions of closed contours), each cell of the partition possibly containing inner jumps. The nontrivial partitioning naturally occurs as a consequence of the presence in the energy functional of statistical terms or of phase dependent weights. In particular, we prove a multiphase version of the De Giorgi--Carriero--Leaci result