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  • The impact of health risks on medical expenses
    • Diet related health risks increase medical and productivity costs
    • Cost of medical care for COPD is high
    • Costs rise with increasing BMI
    • Diabetes, hypertension and cholesterol impact costs
    • Insomnia, a huge economic burden
    • Excess health risks contribute to employer costs
    • Medical claims costs rise with increasing BMI
    • Rheumatoid arthritis associated with high employer's health costs
    • Strong ROI for weight management programmes
    • Health risks identified and linked to higher medical care costs
    • Obesity increases medical and absenteeism costs
    • Painful medical conditions raise the cost of employees' medical claims
    • Medical charges increase with increasing BMI
    • Medical claims proportional to employee health risks
    • Medical costs drop as activity increases, regardless of BMI
    • High medical costs linked to overweight and obesity
    • 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
    • Healthcare costs predicted by modifiable risk factors
  • The impact of health risks on absence from work and productivity
    • Excessive sleepiness impairs health and productivity
    • The business costs of poor sleep
    • Worker productivity and performance is affected by waking up in the night
    • Insomnia predicts future sick leave
    • Fatigue-related lost productive time associated with high financial losses
    • High cost of diabetic neuropathy to US economy
    • Major depression and chronic pain linked to absenteeism
    • Productivity-related costs seriously impact full cost of health conditions
    • BMI linked to short-term disability and lost work days
    • Health-related productivity costs high for smokers
    • Job performance associated with health status of employees
    • Working conditions, strongly influence job performance
    • Absence rates and duration rise with number of risk factors
    • Bipolar disorder associated with high absence-related costs
    • Economic impact of presenteeism exceeds direct medical care costs
    • Good health status boosts employee productivity
    • Health risk factors and productivity linked to sizable loss
    • Obesity leads to lost productive time
    • Pain cripples work place performance
    • Health risk status and on-the-job productivity strongly linked
    • Pain leads to drop in productivity and financial losses
    • Poor sleep contributes to declines in productivity
    • Strong link between health risks and absence costs
    • Four or more health risk factors double risk of absenteeism
    • Health risk status influences employee compensation costs
    • Lack of exercise linked to raised illness-related absence
    • Medical conditions impair work performance
    • Obesity directly increases absenteeism
  • The business benefits of health promotion programmes
    • Effective interventions use established behaviour change methods
    • Employee wellness programmes provide excellent ROI
    • Engagement in a health promotion programme brings down medical costs
    • How and why employees use online health programmes
    • Online intervention increases fruit and vegetable consumption
    • Online weight intervention helps maintain long-term weight loss
    • Workplace wellness programme can generate savings and reduce absence
    • Activity interventions can improve health, absence rates and stress
    • Frequent health risk appraisal can improve employee health status
    • Online depression support helps recovery
    • Health promotion strategy lowers healthcare expenditure
    • Broad-spectrum fluorescent lighting linked to improved productivity
    • Employer-sponsored weight management programme a success
    • Health risks and productivity improve with health promotion
    • Smoking cessation strategy yields substantial ROI
    • Health risk appraisal essential for medical cost savings
    • Health risks strongly influence productivity
    • On-site fitness centre ups staff productivity and reduces absence
    • Small cuts in health risk lead to large savings
    • Work-based health promotion has strong positive financial impact
    • Small risk reductions cover costs of health promotion
    • Wellness programme coupled to positive changes in productivity
    • Health promotion scheme associated with reduced absenteeism
    • Musculoskeletal pain prevention programme associated with savings
    • Short-term disability absence cut by health promotion strategy

Multimodal engagement

  • Effective interventions use established behaviour change methods
  • Employee wellness programmes provide excellent ROI
  • How and why employees use online health programmes
  • Online intervention increases fruit and vegetable consumption
  • Online weight intervention helps maintain long-term weight loss
  • Frequent health risk appraisal can improve employee health status
  • Online depression support helps recovery
  • Health promotion strategy lowers healthcare expenditure
  • Health risks and productivity improve with health promotion
  • Work-based health promotion has strong positive financial impact
  • Wellness programme coupled to positive changes in productivity
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