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4th Annual
Healthy Outcomes Conference
"Workplace
Health—The Emperor Does Have Clothes"
April 6-8, 2005 •
Whistler, British Columbia
Dress for the conference is
business casual.
Dress for dinner on Thursday evening is business attire
All sessions will be held in MacDonald E & F.
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Wednesday, April 6
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5:00 – 6:00 p.m
6:00 – 8:00 p.m
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Speaker presentation rehearsals in MacDonald E & F
Please join us for
registration and an informal reception in the MacDonald Foyer
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Thursday, April 7
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7:00 – 8:00 a.m.
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Breakfast in the Portobello Restaurant
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8:00 – 8:15 a.m.
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Opening Remarks
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8:15 – 9:15 a.m.
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Session One - Keynote Address: The Case
for Workplace Health
Creating healthy
workplaces is an urgent goal for employers. Healthy workplaces have big
pay-offs for employers, notably reduced health benefit, compensation and
absenteeism costs. But there is a more compelling case to be made: a
healthy workplace also is indispensable for innovation, learning, team
work, and change resilience. This is the new model of a healthy and
productive organization. Reaching this higher level of health and
productivity requires more than a 'program.' Above all, it depends on
transforming organizational cultures, systems and practices so that
health is embedded in business strategy.
Speaker: Graham Lowe, President,
The Graham Lowe Group Inc.
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Dr. Lowe's presentation
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9:15 – 10:15 a.m.
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Session Two - Mental Health
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Reducing the Burden of
Depression: A Comprehensive Workplace Intervention Strategy
Depression is the
leading cause of disability worldwide and is a major determinant of the
global burden of disease. Untreated or poorly treated depression impairs
work performance and reduces productivity. A population-based chronic
disease management model can be used to link clinical and occupational
strategies to reduce the burden of depression.
Speaker: Dr. T. Larry Myette, Director and Occupational Medicine
Consultant, Employee and Workplace Health Services, Healthcare Benefit
Trust
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Dr. Myette’s
presentation
The Roundtable Roadmap to Mental Disability
Management
Mr. Craig, President
and CEO of Coastcapital Savings, will address
the urgent and complicated issues associated with mental illness in the
labour force – specifically, he will outline a new roadmap for
mental health and excellence at work in Canada to be officially released in
Toronto on April 13th. The Roadmap is the centerpiece of a year-long
drive by the BC and Global Roundtables to bring needed changes to the
process of disability management taking into account the rising rates and
staggering dollar costs of mental disabilities among men and women in
their prime working years.
Speaker: Lloyd Craig, Chairman and CEO, Coast Capital Savings;
Chairman and CEO, BC Economic Roundtable on Mental Health
Designated Respondents:
1. Fred Holmes
2. Mark Haley
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10:15 – 10:45 a.m.
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Break and speaker
photos
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10:45 – 11:45 a.m.
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Session Three –
Prevention Strategies
The value of a
preventive approach
BC Hydro has longed believed that healthy employees working safely are key to meeting our business goals. Health promotion
programs were introduced 15 years ago, and have continued to evolve
since. Now, primed with recent research and comprehensive information
about employee health, Hydro’s shifting
emphasis from traditional programs and focusing on a new approach to
health promotion.
Speaker: Margot Campbell, Manager,
Pensions, Benefits and Wellness,
BC Hydro
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Ms Campbell’s presentation
A Successful Disability
Prevention Model
The RBC Financial Group is highly focused on incorporating prevention
strategies to maintain a productive and engaged workforce and also to
manage benefit costs. Today we are sharing one aspect of this strategy:
the prevention of lost time. This is one example of a non-traditional
approach that is producing excellent results for our organization and our
employees.
Speakers: Georgia Siabanis, Project Manager, Royal Bank of Canada and
Marc Avaria, Vice-President, Group Life and Disability
Operations, Manulife Financial
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Ms. Siabanis’ and Mr,
Avaria’s presentation
Designated Respondents:
1. Christine Ball
2. Denise Balch
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11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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Lunch in the Wildflower
Restaurant
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1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
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Debate - details to
follow
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2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
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Session Four
–Disease Management
One Size Does Not Fit All: The
Promise of Pharmacogenomics
Pharmacogenomics describes how a person's genetic makeup influences drug response.
Currently available technology can be used to identify individuals at
increased risk of adverse drug reactions or individuals in which drugs
would be ineffective. How are these influencing disease treatments now
and how will they influence disease treatments in the future? Who decides
and who pays?
Speaker: Dr. Micheline
Piquette-Miller
A Model
for Public-Private Collaboration in Workplace Health
The Incentives Working
Group (IWG) comprises a number of stakeholders in workplace health. The
focus of the IWG is to deliver a health promotion/disease management
program in a workplace setting, uniquely leveraging the combined
resources of both the public and private sectors. Through this, the goals
are to measurably enhance personal health and satisfaction, improve
organizational performance, and reduce health system strain. A key
component of this project is evaluation, and the aim is to conduct a
multi-faceted which will consider both short and long-term outcomes from
the societal, employer and individual perspectives.
Speaker: Allan Smofsky, Healthcare
Consultant
Designated respondent:
1. Dr. Steven Semelman
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3:00 – 3:15 p.m.
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Break
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3:15 – 4:00 p.m.
4:00 – 4:30 p.m.
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
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Sesion Five –
Stakeholder Panel Discussion—The Employee’s Role
Group photo
Reception in the
Empress Ballroom
Dinner in the Empress
Ballroom
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Friday, April 8
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7:00 – 8:00 a.m.
8:00 – 8:15 a.m.
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Breakfast in the Portobello Restaurant
Opening Remarks
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8:15 – 9:15 a.m.
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Session Six
– Organizational Health
What makes a healthy
workplace? Management practices and employee health
Organizations have the ability to influence the psychological and
physical well-being of their workers through their leadership, management
and organizational practices. These practices will be identified and
discussed, and opportunities for interventions will be presented.
Speaker: Julian Barling, Professor and Associate Dean, School of Business, Queen's University
Download
Dr. Barling's
presentation
Organizational Health Case study
The BC public service has over 35,000 employees ranging from seasonal
fire fighters to policy analysts to liquor store clerks. In the past few
years we have downsized by over 30%. We are facing the pressures of aging
employees, a shifting focus of work, scarce resources and increasing
benefit costs. Our health and productivity strategy started with
extensive research and analysis, focused on communication and we are now
building business cases for strategic interventions.
Speaker: Martha Kenney, Director,
Health & Benefits Branch, Employee Relation Branch BC Public
Service
Download
Ms. Kenney’s presentation
Designated
respondent:
1. Thomas Holloway
2. Lila Walker
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9:15 – 9:45 a.m.
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Break
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9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
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Session Seven -
Comprehensive Health Management: The DaimlerChrysler Experience
Workplace Health
Investment “Tune Up Your Heart”
As a recipient of the
2004 NQI Gold Trophy Award in Workplace Health, DaimlerChrysler Canada and the CAW are committed to the
health and safety of its employees.
Expression of this commitment included the establishment of
Working Toward Wellness, a broad based health and wellness education
initiative which included a comprehensive outcome based cardiovascular
disease management program entitled Tune Up Your Heart.
Tim McQueen, DaimlerChrysler
“Tune Up
Your Heart” Summary
Heart disease is the number one cause of death in Canada along with being a
substantial cause of morbidity. An effective health management delivery
model focusing on cardiovascular disease was established to improve and
measure substantially improved health outcomes by empowering employees of
DaimlerChrysler at risk of cardiovascular disease. The results of this
two-year program are outlined to validate the benefits of workplace
health management.
Don Renaud, President, Solutions in Health
Workplace Health
– The Business Case for Making It Happen: Measuring the Value of a Proactive Heart Health
Initiative
Is improved cardiovascular health a good investment? DaimlerChrysler tested Tune Up Your
Heart, an outcomes focused intervention program aimed at improving
cardiovascular health. Improved health outcomes in the test group was
analyzed to determine cost saving across all lines of benefit. Based on these findings the potential
savings over the entire active workforce was determined.
Kaylynn Schroeder, AON Consulting
Designated respondents:
1. Andrew Chung
2. Jane Haberbusch
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11:15 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
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Working Lunch: and Interactive Session
One of the highlights of last year’s conference was a surprise
visit by the “Royal Commission” (made up of attendee
volunteers). Participants were asked to identify and defend six top
priorities for employee health for the upcoming year along with
corresponding goals and required actions for each. The six priorities
were: prevention, employer tax credit for health management in the workplace,
change in organizational culture, stress and depression, health-risk
assessments and healthy lifestyle promotion. This year the “Royal
Commission” is returning and is very interested to hear about our
progress on implementing these priorities.
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3:00 – 3:15 p.m.
3:15 – 5:00 p.m.
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Closing Remarks and
Feedback Forms
Closing Reception in
the MacDonald Foyer
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