1. WELNS 605: Wellness Management Administration Longest Chapter 1

2. UWEX Logic Model

3. Management Work Program/project management: the activities through which the desired outputs, outcomes, and impact of a project or program are established and pursued through various processes utilizing human and other resources Tasks: – Determine a program or project’s desired outputs, outcomes, and impact, – Assemble the necessary inputs and resources to achieve the desired results, – Determine the processes necessary to accomplish the desired results and ensure that the processes are carried out effectively and efficiently; and – Do the things noted above while analyzing variables in the program or project’s external environment, assessing their importance and relevance, and responding to them appropriately.

4. Determinants of Health The state of health in human beings is a function of many variables, or health determinants Health determinants for individuals or populations include: – physical environments in which people live and work; – Behaviors/lifestyle choices; – biology (genetic makeup, family history, and physical and mental health problems acquired during life); – social factors, like economic circumstances, socioeconomic position in society, income distribution; – discrimination based on factors such as race/ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation; – availability of social networks/social support; and – health services to which they have access.

5. Health Problem Analysis Worksheet

6. Management Activities Core – Strategizing – Designing – Leading Facilitative – Decision making – Communicating – Managing quality – Marketing

7. Management Skills Technical skills of managers, like the technical skills of a physical therapist or a nurse, are apparent as they do their work. Human or interpersonal skills are the abilities of managers to get along with other people, to understand them, and to lead them in the workplace. Conceptual skills reflect the mental abilities of managers to visualize all the complex interrelationships that exist in a workplace.

8. Manager Competencies Conceptual Technical (managerial and clinical) Interpersonal and collaborative Political Commercial Governance

9. Roles of a Manager (Mintzberg) Interpersonal (figurehead, influencer or leader, and liaison) Informational (monitors, disseminators, and spokespersons) Decisional (entrepreneur, disturbance handler, resource allocator, and negotiator)

10. Activity… You have been hired as the manager of the new YOC staff wellness program “Working Well.” You have been given a budget to hire 2 full-time and 2 part time individuals to help you with this program. Briefly describe the role you would have the individuals play. How do you see the relative mix of competencies changing with different positions, different projects, and different points in time?