Nutrition and fitness is your key to life.

The worksite setting provides an opportunity to implement educational programs, policy and environmental actions that support health, which benefit managers, employees, and ultimately, the community as a whole.  Evidence that worksite programs are cost-effective is growing.   

 

Employer cost reductions have been seen in reduced:

¨ Insurance premiums

¨ Disability benefits

¨ Medical expenses

¨ Health care

 

Productivity is improved due to: 

¨ Improve worker morale

¨ Decrease absenteeism

¨ Decreased employee turnover

¨ Enhanced company image

¨ Improved recruitment.

 

Reyna will design a corporate wellness program based on your company’s needs.  For more information on how corporate wellness will improve your company’s bottom line, see the report released in September 2004 by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS).  This report, Prevention Makes Common “Cents,” highlights the importance for employers to make health promotion part of their business strategy and the significant toll that preventable diseases take on business, including lower productivity and higher health insurance costs.  

 

The HHS report summarizes key research findings about the prevalence and cost of chronic diseases for business where prevention and health management can make a difference, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and asthma. The report highlights recent research showing the dramatic impact of chronic, preventable illnesses have on business' bottom line. A sampling includes:

 ·  Obesity-related health problems cost U.S. businesses an estimated $13 billion in 1994, including about $8 billion in health insurance costs, $2.4 billion for sick leave, $1.8 billion for life insurance and nearly $1 billion for disability insurance.

·   Average health care expenditures for people with diabetes run about $13,243 per person, compared with $2,650 per person for people without diabetes. Even after the differences in age, sex, race and ethnicity are taken into account, people with diabetes had medical expenditures that were 2.4 times higher than comparable people without diabetes.

·   One economic analysis found that a health plan's annual costs for covering treatments to help people quit smoking ranged from 89 cents to $4.92 per smoker, while the annual costs of treating smoking-related illness ranged from $6 to $33 per smoker.

The report also notes that the majority of businesses with at least 50 employees offer some kind of health improvement program.  The full report, Prevention Makes Common “Cents,” is available for downloading free from website http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/prevention.  

 

Corporate Wellness