Revised 10/14/04
Highmark and HealthMedia®
To help Highmark members live longer, healthier lives, Highmark is offering five personalized online lifestyle improvement programs by HealthMedia.
Whether you want to manage your weight, decrease stress in your life, quit smoking, improve your eating habits or want to make healthier lifestyle choices in general, these programs can help you meet your wellness goals. They include:
Smoking Cessation Program
Breathe provides a customized, four-part action plan with a program length based on the participant’s chosen quit date. After answering a detailed questionnaire, participants receive a tailored action plan and three follow-up tailored action plans that are delivered at critical relapse times after the quit date.
Nutrition Program
Nourish is an 8-week program including a 16-page action plan and three follow-up tailored action plans delivered at two, four and eight weeks into the program. It includes personalized techniques for making healthy food choices when dining out, shopping and preparing meals.
Weight Management Program
Balance is a 6-week weight management and physical activity program that offers a personally tailored action plan providing techniques and strategies for making healthy food choices, increasing physical activity, and avoiding the emotional triggers that lead to overeating. Three follow-up tailored action plans reinforce changes and provide additional support.
Stress Management Program
Relax helps adults effectively cope with stress resulting from school, family, work, health, relationships, and finances. It helps participants improve their stress coping skills, reduce stress levels and manage the physical and psychological consequences of chronic stress. It is a five-week program that includes a tailored action plan and three follow-up tailored plans.
Self-Management Program
Designed to help individuals take charge of their chronic conditions, such as diabetes, asthma, migraines, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Through a personalized plan, Care for Your Health provides assistance with medication compliance, emotional issues such as stress and depression, symptom management and lifestyle behaviors that may have an impact on health.
It only takes a few minutes to get started. Here’s how:
1. Go to Highmark’s website at http://www.highmark.com/
2. Choose your Highmark brand based on your service region (i.e., Highmark Blue Shield)
3. Complete the login process, entering your username and password.
4. Scroll to the bottom of the page where it lists “Lifestyle Improvement Programs”.
5. Choose the program in which you wish to enroll.
6. Complete the program questionnaire to receive your customized guide for improving your health.
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