The Evidence keeps Pouring in
Every day I read about several new studies showing the benefits of health promotion. More and more companies are offering employees programs in healthy nutrition and exercise at the worksites. The benefits of these programs not only results in lower health care costs, but also better work performance and reduced absenteeism. Many of these studies also analyze cost savings to the employer and employee and find major savings. Our own work in the 1990s showed more than $5 saved for every $1 spent on our health promotion program.
Some programs offer incentives which might involve reduced co-pays for medical visits, cash rewards, or time off from work. Others might use punitive measures charging higher premium contributions to those who do not participate in offered programs. In our experience, it did not matter whether positive or negative incentives were used. The key was to explain to worker why healthy lifestyles are in their own best interests and why medical care cannot compensate for those unwilling to take better care of themselves. That to me has always been the most powerful incentive. It is likely that more and more companies will start to make these mandatory for employees. The costs to employers under the Health Care Reform act will certainly go up because of the increased enrollment, mandated benefits, and inclusion of adult children until age 26. Workers are going to find they will have to participate in these increased costs. Anything you do to hold down costs will be to your mutual advantage.
Gerald L. Evans, M.D.
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Examples of health promotion programs might include company-sponsored training visits with a to receive information about healthy cooking discounted fitness center memberships or free testing.Offering health promotion programs to employees provides small businesses with a number of potential benefits. In addition to improving their general health work-based health promotion programs also make employees feel that the company is concerned about their welfare which tends to increase their . Editor: Totally concur; that is what I have been preaching for the lat 20 years. GLE
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