Sourse: USPSTF and JAMA What is this about? This edition of Connections newsletter provides two recent very important articles/studies on our need to address prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes in our working population. In June, 2021 an original investigation article was published in JAMA entitled “Trends in Prevalence of Diabetes and Control of Risk Factors… Continue Reading ›
Source: Avidon Health What is this about? This edition of Connections provides a recently released special report that uses authoritative sources to document the usual additional health and productivity costs associated with unhealthy lifestyle choices. Using a variety of peer-reviewed articles, the authors have constructed a very useful framework for educating senior management and all… Continue Reading ›
What is this about? These two articles capsulize recent major patterns in U.S. health care costs for 2018 and 2019. The two articles are full of data on patterns and trends in employer health costs and provide a very useful backdrop for examining national and employer health cost trends. Some of the major findings contained… Continue Reading ›
Source: Chapman Institute What is this about? Budget is usually a major challenge for most employee wellness programs. Since employee wellness and well-being programs are completely discretionary or “optional” in terms of management decision-making around resource allocation, it makes it very hard to adequately fund these kinds of programs. Employee wellness professionals usually must work… Continue Reading ›
Source: Chapman Institute What is this about? First, the good news… employer wellness programs have been proven to help people change their short-term wellness behaviors. Now, the bad news… those same wellness programs have been shown to be pretty poor at helping people change their long-term wellness behaviors. For our purposes, we will define “short-term”… Continue Reading ›
Source: Chapman Institute What is this about? Unfortunately, most employee wellness programs in the U.S. are both under-funded and relatively ineffective. They also tend to be more tactical in nature with limited strategic or business value. A recent article in JAMA documented the ineffective nature of the typical employee wellness program using an admittedly elegant… Continue Reading ›
Source: Chapman Institute What is this about? Unfortunately, most employee wellness programs in the U.S. need to be redesigned for greater effectiveness, but few wellness coordinators know how to make a simple redesign proposal “pitch” to their senior management team. The proposal they put forward needs to be seen as feasible and logical for senior… Continue Reading ›