The costs of healthcare have been rising more than 10% each year for a few years. A substantial amount of the money spent in the healthcare system treats costly illnesses and illnesses.
• Approximately 95% of the $1.4 trillion that we spend as a nation on health goes to direct medical services, while about 5% is [...]
Archive for March, 2010
According to the American Journal of Wellness, “Health Promotion is the science and art of helping individuals change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health.
Optimal health is defined as a balance of physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual health. Lifestyle change can be facilitated through a combination of efforts to enhance [...]
5 Ways to Assess and Improve Your Employees’ Health
Emotional health is a state of wellness that comes from understanding and acknowledging our emotions and locating appropriate ways to express them.
As workers, we often bring emotional problems from our childhood or current family life into the workplace because we haven’t dealt with them effectively outside [...]
25% Jump in Company Interest in Worker Wellness
Corporate health promotion for their workers, companys are discovering, is good for the health of their corporations as well. Health promotion programs help to cut the costs associated with poor staff member health, which include absenteeism, loss of productivity and poor work quality.
A recent Hewitt Associates survey of [...]
It is clear to virtually every American (particularly those of us in business) that healthcare costs are skyrocketing out of control.
No one doubts that either the market will solve the problem OR the government will impose one on us. Managed care has failed from either a cost containment or quality of care perspective.
Businesses [...]
Research spanning more than a decade has consistently shown health promotion programs to be financially effective and that every dollar invested on a health promotion program can return $2.30 and $10.10 by decreasing absenteeism, sick day usage and by lowering insurance costs.
Additionally it is noted that there are marked improvements in employee performance and [...]
Some of the top health promotion programs currently in use today include –
Health Risk (Assessment|Appraisal}s
Health Risk (Assessment|Appraisal} is a top health promotion program currently in use globally. Organizations that start it determine the safety and health concerns of employees by the assessment of appropriateness of the facilities and equipment against the needs of the [...]
Health Promotion is a excellent concept. It brings happiness into health and encourages a in truth holistic approach to life. Wikipedia defines wellness as a healthy balance of the mind-body and spirit that leads to an overall feeling of wellness.
It sounds like exactly what every one is looking for. But when you start to [...]
High rates of employee turnover and the costs of sick days are increasingly taking bites into corporate profits. the high cost of recruitment programs only adds to the challenges that these problems in sum cost the typical company.
A lot of corporations are locating the solution to these challenges by increasing job satisfaction, team building, [...]
The Partnership for Prevention was formed to encourage Fortune 1000 businesses to consider making workforce health a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) issue and adopt strategies to promote avoidance and wellness.
After several years of double-digit rate increases for health insurance, companies are realizing that among the best ways to slow the cost increases is to [...]
Corporate Wellness Companies