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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.

From an editorial point of view, great ideas can come from anywhere. With that philosophy in mind, we will combine our own original content with other content across the web. We organize the content, with a view to making it as simple and useful as possible.

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What's the cost of physical inactivity?

That's one of the topics addressed in a recent episode of PodMed, a weekly podcast from Johns Hopkins Medicine. In the piece, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, discuss topics that are directly relevant to — and often included in — well-run workplace wellness programs.

Among the topics addressed:

  • Mortality and physical inactivity
  • If you sit for 8 hours increased mortality by 58%
  • Global economic burden of inactivity
  • Behavioral activation for depression

The post also addresses another study reported by MedPage Today: “Physical Activity Weakens Dangers of Prolonged Sitting: Confirmation for the risks associated with sedentary lifestyle, and the benefits of exercise.”

The report notes that: “Estimates from 2012 indicated that not meeting physical activity recommendations is responsible for more than 5 million deaths globally each year.”

“Although for individuals who have desk jobs, it is difficult to avoid sitting and the associated risks, the right amount of exercise can reverse the effects, the team said.”

The results — as well as the PodMed discussion — amplify reasons that many workplace wellness programs focus on physical activity and movement (“sitting is the new smoking”) as part of their program design.

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