Thursday, September 6, 2007

Corporate Health and ROI

A lot of companies are interested in corporate health, but don't know where to start.

To really impact behavior change in the right direction takes a total commitment to health and wellness. 85% of the health care costs come from 15% of the employees. Over 70% of health care costs stem directly from lifestyle choices by the employees.

Each company needs to examine its workforce in a number of different ways to impact change in the right direction. This involves working with the employees to determine what will impact a behavior change, what incentives are needed, what benefits are most important and how all this works together to improve both the company's performance and the employees health and productivity.

Health Fairs of America work with companies to determine what services they really needs to implement and corporate health and health benefit strategy. The typical company initially measures employees current health status using a health risk appraisal (HRA) questionnaire. This HRA assesses the current health status of each and every employee along with providing a detailed aggregate management report. Keep in mind that the employees are self reporting so the data is somewhat subjective.

In addition to the HRA, most companies sponsor on site health screenings which typically including cholesterol screenings, glucose, blood pressure, body-fat or height/weight/BMI measurements. Including the screening results with the HRA provides a better picture of each employees current health status.

Alan Kohll
President and CEO
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