Alcohol consumption
- Diet related health risks increase medical and productivity costs
- Strong ROI for weight management programmes
- Health risks identified and linked to higher medical care costs
- Medical charges increase with increasing BMI
- Medical claims proportional to employee health risks
- High-risk health status associated with raised healthcare costs
- Medical claims costs predicted using health risk appraisal data
- Pharmaceutical costs linked to number and type of health risks
- Four or more health risk factors double risk of absenteeism
- Frequent health risk appraisal can improve employee health status
- Small cuts in health risk lead to large savings
