Wellness initiative for the nation (WIN)
Wellness Initiative for the Nation (WIN), a plan to proactively prevent disease and illness, promote health and productivity, and create a wellness-based health care system for all Americans, was developed in 2008 under the leadership of the Samueli Institute. Samueli Institute, in collaboration with health policy advisors, health services researchers and health care providers, created WIN to ensure that integrative health care, prevention and wellness are front and center in national health care policy discussions.
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Samueli Institute has taken an active role in the national conversation about health care reform, and ensured that WIN was closely aligned with other efforts to create a more healthy nation, including Healthy People 2010; the Institute of Medicine’s reports on health care quality, transformation, and integrative medicine; and the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy report.
WIN can also prevent the looming fiscal disaster in our health care system. In fact, effectively addressing preventable, chronic illness and creating a productive, self-care society is our only long-term hope for changing a system that, despite recent reforms, costs too much and delivers too little care to too few people.