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Fitness Advantage Trainer Corporate Wellness Consulting services include:
• Plan design & implementation
• Customized Company Wellness Newsletters
• On-site group exercise and personal training services
• Relaxation Yoga Sessions
Consider this:
Because private employers and employees are the primary purchasers of health care, through the insurance premiums that pay together for coverage, it makes a great deal of sense to address individual health and well-being. In fact, of the $585 billion that private payers expended for medical services in 1997, about 60% ($348 billion) was spent by employers and employees to purchase health insurance.
Source: 6 Reasons
On a national level, health care spending topped $1.1 trillion in 1998, up 5.6% from 1997. And, by 2007, health care is projected to double.
Source: National Coalition on Health Care. Health Care Facts
The bottom line? The unhealthier your employees are, the more you’re going to be shelling out in health care dollars.
AND, make not doubt about it there are costs to having unhealthy employees:
The Cost of Unhealthy Employees to American Business
• It costs on average $1,300 for an employee who smokes per year.
• Workplace alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use costs over $100 billion each year.
• Job stress is estimated to cost $200-300 billion annually.
• At least 100 million workdays are lost each year to lower back pain, costing employers about $20 billion.
Well-designed health promotion initiatives can successfully impact health risk behaviors at the worksite, thereby impacting the bottom line.
• Health and cost outcomes of worksite-based comprehensive health promotion and disease prevention indicate: Immunization for measles, mumps and rubella can save approximately $14 for every dollar spent.
• A program to increase the use of bicycle safety helmets can yield an estimated net savings of more than $200 million each year.
• Screening mammograms for women 50 to 70 years of age every two years is highly cost-effective at $4,050 per year of life saved.
• Programs that target smoking during pregnancy can save more than $6 for every dollar spent.
Source: Six Reasons
One of the greatest advantages of a well-designed health promotion initiative is the promise of improved health. While not conclusive, there is a growing body of evidence that suggests that well-designed health promotion initiatives can successfully impact such behaviors as smoking, high-risk alcohol use, exercise, nutritional habits, and stress. Consistent with the newly emerging worksite wellness literature, the tangible benefits associated with worksite wellness affect the company’s bottom line.
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