Benefits of Worksite Health Promotion

Health Promotion in the workplace benefits the entire organization!

Health Promotion / Wellness programs are important to the health and vitality of the workforce of any company. When employees are physically and mentally healthy they have better energy on the job, are absent less, use fewer health care dollars, have improved morale, and are more enjoyable to work with.

Worksite health promotion stands out as the answer to long-range goals of maintaining a healthy workforce with manageable medical expenses. There is compelling evidence that assets spent by employers on health related costs is preventable through health promotion programming.

Benefits of Health Promotion:

• Healthy Employees cost less and ar emore fun to work with!
• Lower Health Care Cost
• Increased Productivity
• Reduce Sick Time
• Improve Employee Energy and Morale
• Improve Recruitment and Retention
• Reduce "presenteeism" (i.e. showing up sick or distracted with health concerns)
• Improve teamwork and creativity
• Employees report higher job satisfaction
• Improve your bottom line!

Consider these facts when thinking about health promotion for your company:

• At least 25% of health care costs incurred by working adults are attributed to modifiable health behaviors such as diet, lack of exercise, tobacco use and high stress.
• The indirect costs of poor health, such as absenteeism or presenteeism can be three times larger than the direct medical costs.
• For many companies, medical costs consume half of corporate profits
• The total costs of obesity in US companies is over 13 Billion and is associated with 39 million lost work days, and 63 million physician visits.
• Employers spend an average of $1,500 more to insure an obese employee over a normal weight employee.
• $350 / year is SAVED when a low health risk employee remains low risk, and $153 is saved when an employee with high risks reduces health risks.
• In Vermont, workers’ health care premiums rose 57% between 200 and 2004
• Employees who exercise as little as once per week have health care costs that are one-third to one-half lower than those who do not.
• A large scale review of 42 published studies of workplace health promotion programs show:
  • average of 28% reduction in sick days
  • average 26% reduction in health care costs
  • average 30% reduction in workers’ comp and disability claims
  • average $5.93 to $1 saving-to-cost ratio.

Time to bring a Health Promotion Speaker and Certified Personal Fitness Trainer into your workplace!