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How Poor Health Habits Among America’s Workforce are Contributing to the Nation’s Growing Rate of Obesity and the Associated Health Issues
Technologies and medical discoveries are providing consumers with new tools to improve their personal wellness.
Employer-sponsored health risk assessments (HRA) may include laboratory tests to provide evidence of disease and disease risks for common medical conditions
Amy Andrews knows about yo-yo-ing on a diet — but she’s determined to keep the weight off.
Employees and their families have easy access to many medical services
Those extra trips to the gym courtesy of your employer may have done more good for your health than you realize, a new study finds.
The Employer Health Asset Management Roadmap is for those employers struggling to find a clear path to making a health and productivity difference in the lives of their employees and in the competitiveness of their company
Eighty-Nine Percent of Those at High Risk for Chronic Kidney Disease, 59 Percent of Those at High Risk for High Cholesterol, and 28 Percent of Those at High Risk for Diabetes First Learned of Health Condition through Lab-Based Wellness Program
Getting out, having fun and being active were the emphasis of a city employee basketball tournament Saturday held as part of the Employee Wellness Program.
Members Report Finding New Paths to Better Health and Fitness
The landscape of health care is constantly evolving (too often it is “eroding” for many businesses).
A Strong Plan and Ongoing Initiatives are Vital for Success
Researchers have demonstrated that the employees at the engineering firm, Woodard & Curran eat significantly more fruits and vegetables and get 50 percent more exercise every week than they did 12 months ago.
As the third leading cause of death in the U.S., Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)—an umbrella term that describes progressive lung diseases, including emphysema, chronic bronchitis, refractory asthma and severe bronchiectasis—kills one person every four minutes.
We’re going to momentarily sidestep what would be a more likely holiday-timed blog entry preaching healthy consumption (e.g., the annual Footloose-inspired dance-off between tryptophan and saturated fats hoofing across the nation’s dining room tables this Thursday) to instead focus on the concept of thankfulness. Counting blessings – perhaps the less traveled road of tradition this week brings.
As U.S. companies continue to ask workers to shoulder a greater burden of the cost of health care, a new survey from Aon Hewitt, The Futures Company and the National Business Group on Health, reveals that consumers want their employers to do more to help them improve their health and get the most from their employer-provided health and wellness plans.
Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of disease and premature death in the United States, yet more than 46 million Americans still smoke.
Disengaged workers can cost U.S. businesses a whopping $350 billion a year
Fully insured employers (and their brokers) are often reluctant to implement wellness programs because they feel their health insurance premiums are determined more or less by the claims of all the employers in the carrier’s risk pool. That’s usually condensed into the sentence, “I’ll never see the ROI.”
If overweight Americans could magically drop their weight back to 1991 levels, it would save our country and our employers $1 trillion dollars a year