Add to ORKGAs healthcare costs continue to rise across the country more companies are beginning to look for new strategies to cut costs. The evolving health and wellness industry has been shown to reduce expenditures from costly medical services by improving long term healthy behaviors in the work force, aiming to impact the demand and supply sides of healthcare. This paper looks at the history behind the health and wellness movement and specifically evaluates Healthy Incentives, King County\u27s own health and wellness initiative and the impact such a program has on direct medical expenditures as well as key health risk factors that are affecting millions of working Americans
Employers are increasingly using wellness programs to improve health and lifestyle of employees. Man...
Employer-based health promotion programs have been around for about four decades, but in recent year...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2015Unhealthy lifestyles continue to drive preventable ...
As healthcare costs continue to rise across the country more companies are beginning to look for new...
Examines the rise in health plan initiatives to promote wellness as a way for employers to manage co...
In theory, workplace wellness programs offer an important public health and policy opportunity to im...
[Excerpt] Of the $2.8 trillion that the United States has spent on healthcare in recent years, the m...
Spiraling health care costs have compelled some universities to invest in employee wellness. A large...
This paper is important to public health practice as it will review the most important literature io...
The health of a company’s employees is a considerable challenge for today’s corporate ex...
This paper analyzes data from a large employer that enhanced financial incentives to encourage parti...
This paper attempts to look at the problems with employee wellness programs and why they\u27re not a...
Examines how Germany's wellness incentives for the publicly insured helped reduce costs but were les...
Introduction: The WoW program is designed to improve employee health outcomes through workplace supp...
The Massachusetts Business Roundtable (MBR) collaborated with a team from the Emerging Leaders Progr...
Employers are increasingly using wellness programs to improve health and lifestyle of employees. Man...
Employer-based health promotion programs have been around for about four decades, but in recent year...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2015Unhealthy lifestyles continue to drive preventable ...
As healthcare costs continue to rise across the country more companies are beginning to look for new...
Examines the rise in health plan initiatives to promote wellness as a way for employers to manage co...
In theory, workplace wellness programs offer an important public health and policy opportunity to im...
[Excerpt] Of the $2.8 trillion that the United States has spent on healthcare in recent years, the m...
Spiraling health care costs have compelled some universities to invest in employee wellness. A large...
This paper is important to public health practice as it will review the most important literature io...
The health of a company’s employees is a considerable challenge for today’s corporate ex...
This paper analyzes data from a large employer that enhanced financial incentives to encourage parti...
This paper attempts to look at the problems with employee wellness programs and why they\u27re not a...
Examines how Germany's wellness incentives for the publicly insured helped reduce costs but were les...
Introduction: The WoW program is designed to improve employee health outcomes through workplace supp...
The Massachusetts Business Roundtable (MBR) collaborated with a team from the Emerging Leaders Progr...
Employers are increasingly using wellness programs to improve health and lifestyle of employees. Man...
Employer-based health promotion programs have been around for about four decades, but in recent year...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2015Unhealthy lifestyles continue to drive preventable ...