Archive for the ‘Health Promotion’ Category
Employee Wellness Programs: Focus on Injury Prevention
Preventing injuries is a high priority for companies, especially in factory settings such as Honda. That’s why the company offers several
initiatives—including line-site process evaluations —to establish potential hazards and help reduce the chance of injury. As part of an
early intervention program, Honda staff members who are feeling pain can receive a massage of the affected [...]
Employee Wellness Plans Bring a Healthier Bottom-lines
Employee Wellness Plans are a fantastic investment, at least according to Lincoln industries in Nebraska. CNN reported on this 565 employee business their committed investment in their employee’s wellness.
Employee Wellness Plans are part of business Culture
The Employee Wellness Programs, according the story, has been in place for 16 years at Lincoln, and it doesn’t seem [...]
Employee Wellness Programs: Focus on Early Detection and Prevention:
Dr. Moore of Nationwide maintains that immunization is the most cost-effective treatment in medicine. For example, vaccinating children
against the influenza virus averages a savings (including medical costs, parents’ missed work, etc.) of up to $35 per vaccine recipient.
And experts predict that estimate is low, because it doesn’t take into account the rapid spread of the [...]
Benefits of Employee Wellness Plans
Employee Wellness Plans Becoming Increasingly Popular
Employee Wellness Plans are Becoming Increasingly popular outside the workplace, showing the ever-increasing importance of disease prevention and health risk management. Private insurance corporations, as well as state Medicaid and Medicare offices are working on ways to improve the health of the people they insure in hopes to save money [...]
Employee Wellness Programs: Focus on Stress Reduction
Advantages of Stress Reduction Programs
While stress cannot be eliminated from life, or even from the workplace, coping skills can be developed with relative ease. Stress
management skills lead to decreased absenteeism and more effective, more productive staff members. Because stress has been shown to
contribute to such physical conditions as ulcers, high blood pressure and stroke, stress [...]
Employee Wellness Programs: The Bottom-Line Booster
Employee Wellness Plans are proven to increase productivity and reduce medical care costs. For a business, that makes a difference in the bottom-line. Today, more than 81% of America’s businesses with 50 or more employees have some form of Employer Health and Wellness Program with the most popular being exercise, tobaccos cessation classes, back care [...]
Employee Wellness Programs: Focus on Prenatal Care and Breastfeeding
Advantages of Prenatal Care and Breastfeeding
The old adage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is particularly relevant to when applied to preventive measures taken
during pregnancy, when a few extra ounces of birth weight can save a child’s life. During pregnancy, simple precautions can help avoid
catastrophic results; giving up tobacco use, for [...]
Employer Health and Wellness Program Tends
Employers are no longer able to trim extra savings out of their health insurance programs, and the majority of businesses have been cost shifting, asking employees to cover more of their medical care costs. Health insurance costs continue to climb (10% or more per year) at 2-3 times the general inflation rate. With nowhere else [...]
Employee Wellness Programs: Focus on tobacco use Cessation Programs
Advantages of tobacco use Cessation Programs
Instances of respiratory diseases, cancer and other illnesses can be decreased through tobacco use cessation efforts. tobacco use cessation
initiatives can provide huge opportunities for enhanced health.
The American Cancer Society reports that tobacco use staff members cost companies an average of $1,429 per smoker per year in raised
medical costs over non-tobacco [...]
Startinging a Employer Health and Wellness Program
Employee Wellness Plans start and end with individual health. Individuals, after all, are able to make decisions about maintaining and / or improving their health and wellbeing. Employee Employee Wellness Plans must therefore provide the tools and resources needed to assist and motivate individuals to actively participate in the program.
Individual health is only one part [...]