Issue 5
Economics
Turning Bad News into Best Practices: How to Bounce Back from the Health Care Crisis
Employer medical costs have increased by 140 percent over the past ten years. Health insurance costs will likely overtake profits very soon. Medical systems and employees alike face paralyzing double-digit
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Creating a Self-Funded Wellness Program
How many times have you uttered or heard this phrase? If you’re like most organizations, probably more than you’d like, but this is one objection that should never stand in the way of offering a comprehensive
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The State of the Health and Productivity Management Market
The market acceptance of, demand for, and sophistication levels of health and productivity management (HPM) programs continues to increase.
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Vision Care – Not Just Seeing Well, but Being Well
Vision benefits are strongly emerging as a way for employers to enhance wellness and disease programs. The importance of vision care is increasing as it impacts overall health, productivity and quality of life.
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The Downside of Being Unwell and How a Corporate Wellness Program Can Help
The costs of ill health, both in premiums and in lost productivity are staggering, up to $2,800 per employee per year, for those that have issues.
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How to Create and Nurture a Wellness Culture
Employers are finally starting to understand that employee wellness can help achieve important business objectives, yet many companies still have not implemented an employee wellness
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Cultural Stress: A Modern Threat to Health
Cultural Stress is a new type of stress that is superimposed on the normal stresses of everyday life. From the advent of the digital revolution in the 1980s, to increased population and affluence,
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Wellness Helps Conquer Recession Depression
In a year marked by doom-and-gloom news stories about a failing economy, staggering unemployment rates and a major housing crisis
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Americans Love to Smile
Americans love to smile. Keeping those pearly whites nice and white should be a priority for everyone to maintain a great smile and a healthy life.
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Carrots and Sticks? How about personal accountability!
Over and over I hear the analogies of our trade, “It’s easier to attract bees with honey,” “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink” or “It’s better to motivate change with carrots than to punish
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Ten Simple Steps towards Preventing Holiday Weight Gain
We all have had it happen to us before and we are pretty sure it is going to happen again. Everyone knows that the chunk of calendar between Halloween and New Years Eve is famous as the biggest
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Using Voluntary Benefits to Support Consumer Driven Wellness Initiatives
Most employers in the US today are looking to find new ways to reduce their healthcare spend and require their workforce to become more accountable for benefit costs. Some of the strategies that
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Wellness Programs are not just For the Big Companies Anymore!
As employers are looking at ways to reduce expenses to keep their doors open and remain profitable during this tough economy, they are looking at the cost of providing benefits.
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Who Said They Have Not Read a Good Employee Benefits Book Lately?
Veteran HR employee benefits writer, Leah Shepherd, teamed up with Robert Arnoff, an employee benefits adviser, to write The 3R-s of Employee Benefits: Recruiting, Retention,
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Is Corporate Wellness Heading in the Right Direction?
Corporate Wellness is certainly heating up. It is creating a lot of “buzz” and attracting a lot of attention. The only problem for the industry currently is the economic recession which has made many employers
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