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Benefits of Corporate Wellness Plans
Benefits of Corporate Wellness Programs: Easy to Find
Employer’s are learning that Corporate Wellness Plans is an effective way to increase productivity, improve staff member health, lower medical costs and reduce rates of absence.
A report published in 2003 by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) highlighted how important it is for employers [...]
Corporate Wellness Programs: Future Developments, Directions and Challenges
Technological and demographic transformations are changing the nature of work in our society. As these changes occur the broad-based model of Corporate Wellness Plans described above will evolve and continue to develop. If current trends continue, the workers of tomorrow will be older, more racially and ethically diverse, increasingly female, and will often be located [...]
Components of a Comprehensive Employer Health and Wellness Program
As the field of Corporate Wellness Plans continues to evolve, the need to define succinctly the components of this broad-based approach increases. In 1987 Allensworth and Kolbe (1987) expanded the prevailing definition of broad-based school health to include the domains of Health Instruction, Environmental Health, Health Services, Physical Fitness Education, Counseling and Psychological Services, School [...]
Employer Health and Wellness Program Statistics
Employer Health and Wellness Program Statistics tell a clear story – Employer Health and Wellness Program Programs are effective , and they save companies money.
You should take note of these interesting Employer Health and Wellness Program Statistics:
Some 25 percent of American companies were running Corporate Wellness Plans in 1996.
Employer Health and Wellness Program Statistics depict [...]
Workplace Obesity is a Major Cost to Companies
Workplace Obesity: The Facts
Workplace obesity has become one of the fastest growing medical care problems in America. It is well known that America is considered one of the, if not “the”, heaviest nations in the world. This is largely in part due to fast food, un-healthy snacks and a very sedentary lifestyle. However, what many [...]