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Workplace Wellness Lab delivers leading insights, ideas and information on wellness, health management, and healthy living.

Our goal is simple: Workplace Wellness Lab provides regular and better information as an important path to create healthy individual outcomes, while helping change health care in America.

By connecting the audiences that matter – consultants, corporate executives, policymakers, thought leaders, journalists, customers, and more – we establish a positive, substantive, and influential voice within the wellness industry that makes the case that:

    • Left unchecked, current trends in health spend and outcomes are unsustainable.
    • Given that half the healthcare dollars in this country are incurred by employers, well-executed preventive care health management programs in the worksite are clearly enduring and valuable, helping drive improved workplace environments and individual outcomes.
    • Industry coherence around private sector innovation to drive effective health management programs is economically vital, given what’s possible in a spend category that is arguably one of the greatest challenges in America today.

Workplace Wellness Lab comes at this challenge principally from the employer point of view: What are the credible and demonstrated best practices in preventive care to structure programs that have an enduring impact? How can the impact be made explicit, as something that is both the right thing to do and a proactive business initiative that lowers the cost of care, as experienced by both employers and employees?

And Workplace Wellness Lab goes beyond the workplace. It’s a robust platform filled with ideas and insights from those that influence how employers think about this opportunity: research organizations, non-profits, think tanks and more.

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Today ends American Diabetes Month. Of course, just because the recognition month ends in no way means that the continual work to prevent and manage diabetes ends.

As we noted yesterday, Interactive Health found that

  • 30-39% of Americans are estimated to be living with prediabetes
  • An estimated 90% of those with prediabetes are not aware of their risk
  • Although more effective, only 25-35% of all those at risk of prediabetes are identified through our targeted A1c testing

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention outlines various keys to build a workplace wellness program that focuses on diabetes. Moreover, the CDC offers a wide range of important information about diabetes and the workplace in its Workplace Health Resource Center.

What else have we highlighted?

  • We outlined what prediabetes testing looks like in the workplace wellness, and Interactive Health's  reasons to offer A1c testing to all: “Clients who chose to expand their program and add A1c testing to all employees through Smarter Testing saw an increase in identification of prediabetes risk 3-5 times greater than other testing methodologies.”
  • We highlighted the International Diabetes Federation's very useful paper that outlines “Cost-effective solutions for the prevention of type 2 diabetes.”
  • We provided an infographic that outlines how to reshape the workforce to beat diabetes.
  • We noted that according Reuters: “The number of people living with diabetes has tripled since 2000, pushing the global cost of the disease to $850 billion a year.”
  • We reported on a study that offers guidance for the benefits of a well-run wellness program to help reduce sugar beverage consumption.
  • We ran another  this infographic that explains diabetes costs, risk factors, and prevention management.
  • We highlighted how early detection of diabetes may help reduce risk.
  • We began by explaining how diabetes management is a primary action area for well-run workplace wellness programs.

The work will continue, but we hope is clear why diabetes prevention and management — for personal health as well as helping reduce overall health costs — is such an important part of a well-run workplace wellness program.

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