What is Health By Choice NOT by Chance?
- Knowing how, when and where to treat your common illness and minor injuries
- Managing a healthy lifestyle – planning & goal-setting for health
- Using your health plan, other elected benefits and resources, practicing prevention and a healthy lifestyle to support health in addition to treating illness and injury
- Actively participating in your health care – communicating with doctors and healthcare providers
Why enroll?
- You want to utilize your benefits to stay healthy.
- You want the best medical outcomes possible when being treated for injury or illness.
You want to reduce your costs for healthcare.
You want to save time.
8 sessions – 1 hour per week. Complete all 8 sessions below for 100 WellPath Points!
- Choose your plan (Parts I & II)
- Choose good health care (Parts I & II)
- Choose to communicate
- Choose prevention
- Choose medication wisely & safely
- Choose to be a good historian
New Course being developed. Stay tuned!
Health by Choice NOT by Chance is offered by web or in-person at Casino Arizona or Two Waters A or B. Click for map.
email wellness@srpmic-nsn.gov with questions.
This course was developed in response the the SRP-MIC Employee Health Plan Literacy Survey of 2013.
Design your personal plan to improve your health during these 8, 1-hour sessions:
Choose Your Plan I & II (sessions 1 & 2):
- Assess current state of health and vision for optimal health
- Inventory all health-related benefits and additional resources available
- Begin your plan to choose health in 2016 and beyond
- Incorporate your employee-benefits and other resources into your plan
- Scenarios for navigating our benefit-providers web sites
Choose Good Health I & II (sessions 3 & 4):
- Assess the leading threats to our health
- Assess the use of resources – time, money, others, required to maintain health and to live with bad health
- Choose to assume the role of General Manager of your health and hire a coach and quarterback for your health team
- Choose to navigate the healthcare system for the best outcomes at the lowest price and least amount of time
- Avoid medical errors – pursue quality care
- Scenarios for best care
Choose Good Communication (session 5):
- Choose the most appropriate care
- Choose to get the most out of doctor’s visits
- Choose to communicate with health care workers
- Choose to communicate with Ameriben and others
- Choose to communicate with Powers of Attorney, Living Wills, Advanced Medical Directives.
- Increase feeling of confidence and control (self-efficacy) when interacting with health care providers and navigating health-related systems
Communication scenarios
Choose Prevention (session 6):
- Choose to use your preventive health benefits
- Personalize prevention
- Practice prevention with your physician
- Choose WellPath
- Scenarios for choosing preventive practices
Choose medications safely & wisely (session 7):
- Choose your medications and understand your medications
- Choose & work with your pharmacist
- Choose to be a savvy consumer of medications
- Choose to use your prescription drug program
- Choose generics & brand name drugs wisely, and consider therapeutic equivalents
- Use 90 day fill for reduced cost, increased convenience and compliance
- Choose to be compliant
- Scenarios for utilizing prescription drug program and managing medications
Choose to be a good historian (session 8):
- Maintain a personal health record
- Know your family’s medical history
- Choose to provide accurate and comprehensive answers to help your doctors with diagnosis and treatment
- Choose to eliminate unnecessary and redundant tests
- Choose to reduce medical errors
- Increase feeling of confidence and control (self-efficacy) when interacting with health care providers and navigating health-related systems
Scenarios – being a good historian