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Workplace Wellness Programs: Do They Enhance Wellness?
Dr. Glorian Sorensen of Harvard School of Public Presented at INShape October 15, 2007. Indiana Health Summit. Statistics on health costs for risky behaviors. Best practices include linking program to business objectives, management support, program design and planning, financial support , staffing and accountability, social support, physical environment, evaluation.
Wellness Program Problems and Solutions: What Ails Workplace Wellness Programs?
By Carol Milano, June 1 2007, Risk Management Magazine. Common problem areas and how to deal with them.
Does Wellness Work? Cost-Effectiveness of Worksite Wellness Programs.
By Larry Chapman MPH, WebMD Health Services, April 2007.
Basic types of wellness programs, summary of cost benefit study findings; relationship between health risks and health costs; Click for PowerPoint presentation and statistics 22 slides When password screen appears, click “no”. Slides can be printed but not saved to file.
Working Towards Wellness: Accelerating the Prevention of Chronic Disease
2007 PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute in conjunction with the World Economic Forum.
Wellness Council of America
“Seven Benchmarks of Success”: senior level support, wellness teams, data collection, plan of action, changing behavior-what works?, supportive environment at work, regular evaluation of results. Membership organization.
Wellness in the Workplace, 2006
Dr. Dee Edington, Director, Health Management Research Center, University of Michigan 71 slides of statistics on problems of employee health and research results from wellness studies.
Improving Health: An Employer Tool Kit
National Business Group on Health, adapted from an Institute of Medicine report on the NASA employee health program, 2005
Studies Document the Savings from Medical Self-Care Guides, Benefits & Compensation Digest 42, January 2005. Powell, Don R. 12 pages
Statistics on dollar savings from self-care for companies and unions surveyed.
Wellness Programs Seen As Cost-Containment Tool: Aug 1, 2005. Business & Legal Reports. Survey of several successful plans.
Meta-evaluation of Worksite Health Promotion Economic Return Studies: 2005 Update
Larry S. Chapman, MPH. Journal of Health Promotion, July/Aug 2005, Art of Health Promotion, p. 1-10.
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Companies Fight Tobacco Use to Lower Health Care Costs By: Parekh, Rupal, Business Insurance, 2/28/2005, Vol. 39, Issue 9
Examples of companies refusing to hire or firing smokers. Union Pacific, Navistar, Weyco (Okemos Mich). Statistics on costs of smoking to business and to economy. When this article was published, 29 states prohibited discrimination by employers based on employee smoking. Some states allow employers to charge smokers higher insurance rates.
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Wellness Programs: A Remedy for Reducing Healthcare Costs
By: Kocakulah, Mehmet C., Joseforsky, Holly, Hospital Topics, Spring 2002, Vol. 80, Issue 2. Crandon Corporation manufacturing plant study of wellness program implementation.
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