As employers consider whether to implement -- or, perhaps, grow -- a workplace wellness program, on question often centers on benefits. Whether the measurement is return on investment, return on value, or other means to capture value, the basic question remains: What...
Do workplace wellness programs make an impact for people who suffer -- or may not even yet know that they suffer -- from chronic disease? A new SHRM piece reviews a study that indicates the potential is there. The piece states: "Over 85 million Americans are living...
While healthcare workers spend their workdays helping people get and stay well, they often struggle to take care of their own wellness. Studies have found that nurses who work overnight are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease and lung cancer, and healthcare...
Gretchen Reynolds, a health and fitness writer, penned a Well column in The New York Times outlining the effects of exercise on brain health. Reynolds summarizes the recent body of work from 2015, tying physical activity to strong mental capacity over time. Research...
Heart disease is America’s number 1 killer – and 80% is preventable. The good news: Interactive Health is making a positive impact. Recent studies show employees enrolled in Interactive Health wellness programs had a significant drop in blood pressure and cholesterol,...
We've reported previously (such as here) on the use of incentives in workplace wellness programs. Some companies use incentives to help encourage employees to take biometric screening based health risk assessments. A report by the Employee Benefit Research...
Should employees be treated like world-class athletes? They should when businesses seek to "consider how an understanding of physiology can help increase employee, and then, business performance," write Jack L. Groppel, PhD and Ben Wiegand, PhD in a report titled...
A 2015 Survey of Employers and Health Care Consumers conducted by Deloitte Consulting brought attention to increased interest in wellness programs. Despite the challenges associated with building an evidence-based program that’s sensitive to the needs of employees,...
Can worksite lifestyle interventions reduce cardiac risk? That's what cardiologist Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart and Physician-in-Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital seeks to learn through a " three-year study, known as the TANSNIP-PESA study,...