Health Promotion Programs Reap the Benefits of Health.

The concern for worker wellness is an increasing trend for American corporation. Why? the link between worker wellness and the bottom line is clear and consistent.

Businesss who integrate wellness in their overall objectives find they experience lowered absences, better morale, lowered health risks, and lowered healthcare costs.

The purpose of this guide to is to encourage and help you launch your own Health Promotion Program. When you already have a health promotion program, but are not receiving the results you expected, perhaps some ideas and best practices in this toolkit will help you and your workers reap the advantages of a healthier workforce.

At least 50% of health care expenditures are lifestyle-related, and accordingly, potentially preventable. Yet despite the $5,000 an average company spends on health care per employee each year, most companys are spending less than 5% of that on medical screenings and prevention.

The most robust meta-evaluation of Wellness Program studies shows something very exciting! It shows that Wellness Programs are not only effective at helping to reverse the rising spiral of healthcare costs, but these health promotion programs are also becoming more effective.  The average cost-benefit ratio has increased from 1 – 3 for earlier health promotion programs to 1 – 6 today.

Simply put, the average reduction in health care costs, sick time, disability costs, and workers’ compensation is more than 25 percent for well designed health promotion programs.

Company health promotion provides a long-term approach for helping keep personnel well.  The single most crucial thing you are able to do for your personnel is to start a Wellness Program now.