Small and large corporations carry a significant proportion of the provision of health care for families in this country by providing healthcare insurance for their workers. With the escalating increase in healthcare cost many corporations are attempting to slow the increase of healthcare insurance premiums by providing creative cost control programs. Greater emphasis is being put on primary prevention to keep workers healthy and secondary prevention to identify and treat health conditions before they can become serious.

At some workplaces, workers are being encouraged to take greater responsibility for their health related behaviors through risk rated incentive packages. Linking wellness to staff member benefits of gain sharing and co-payment cost reductions will provide new opportunities requiring efforts of collaboration between the human resource managers and the Corporate Health Promotion Program specialists. These two sets of experts may also work together for the ongoing evaluation of cost effective Corporate Health Promotion Programs.

In conjunction with the above programs most large corporations also have a nurse or physician on staff to dispense on-site medical and preventive care. Some programs have also found it cost effective to provide their own physical therapy programming to assist injured and infirm workers in regaining optimal functioning. A broad-based selection of health related staff member services and benefits would include the following:

• Free or low cost health screenings provided on site by business clinical personnel or through outside contractors:
Serum cholesterol
Colorectal cancer screening
Blood pressure screening
Mammography
Vision and hearing testing
Diabetes
• Referral procedures (e.g., Hypertension, Cholesterol, Cancer)
• Provision of first aid and emergency care
• Disease control and prevention programs
• Child and infirm adult care services
• Pre-retirement and financial planning
• Continued learning/educational opportunities
• Coordination of business picnics and outings
• Parent-child work visitation programs
• Workers compensation/rehabilitation