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

Employers who integrate wellness in their overall objectives 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 program, but are not receiving the results you expected, perhaps some of the ideas and best practices in this toolkit will help you and your employees reap the benefits of a healthier workforce.

At least 50 percent of health-care expenditures are lifestyle-related, and accordingly, potentially preventable. Yet despite the $5,000 an average business spends on health care per worker each year, most businesss are spending less than 5 percent 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 are not only effective at assisting to reverse the rising spiral of health-care costs, but these programs are also becoming more effective. the typical cost-benefit ratio has increased from 1 – 3 for earlier programs to 1 – 6 today.

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

Employee health promotion provides a long-term approach for helping keep staff members well. the single most important thing you are able to do for your staff members is to start a Health Promotion Program now.