The concern for worker health promotion is an increasing trend for American corporation. Why? the link between worker health promotion and the bottom line is clear and consistent.

Businesss who integrate wellness in their overall goals find they experience lowered absences, better morale, lowered health risks, and lowered health care costs.

The purpose of this guide to is to encourage and help you launch your own Health Promotion Program. When you already have a wellness program, but aren’t receiving the results you expected, perhaps some ideas and best practices in this toolkit will help you and your staff reap the benefits of a healthier workforce.

At least 50% of health care expenditures are lifestyle-related, and hence, potentially preventable. Yet despite the $5,000 an typical employer spends on health care per staff member each year, most employers are spending less than 5% of that on medical testings and prevention.

The most robust meta-evaluation of Health Promotion Program studies shows something very exciting! It shows that Health Promotion Programs aren’t only effective at helping to reverse the rising spiral of health care costs, but these health promotion programs are also becoming more effective.  The typical cost-benefit ratio has increased from 1 – 3 for earlier health promotion programs to 1 – 6 today.

Simply put, the typical reduction in health care costs, sick time, disability costs, and workers’ compensation is more than 25 percent for well designed wellness programs.

Company wellness provides a long-term approach for helping keep employees well.  The single most critical thing you can do for your employees is to begin a Health Promotion Program now.