Translating Research into Policy and Practice, September 2005, Vol 6 Number 5.
AUTHOR:
Daniel Zank
Donna Friedsam
OVERVIEW:
Illness and injury associated with an unhealthy lifestyle or modifiable risk factors is reported to account for at least 25% of employee health care expenditures. The most significant of these risk factors are stress, tobacco use, overweight or obesity, physical inactivity, excessive alcohol use, and poor nutritional habits. Over the past two decades, a variety of groups at the local, state, and national levels have promoted the concept that health risk reduction and care management programs can improve employee health, and that worksite health education, health risk management, and benefit counseling should complement standard health insurance benefits.
The intensity of worksite health promotion programs range from bulletin board, pamphlet or newsletter information to onsite fitness facilities, health risk reduction classes, and personal lifestyle change coaching. Wellness programs today often include a health risk assessment (HRA) to evaluate each employee’s modifiable risk factors of disease. Program coordinators then target interventions to those that are at increased risk through personal communications and individual follow-up.
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