If You Build It Correctly... They Will Come
When looking at corporate well-being programs, we tend to think in terms of managing conditions such as diabetes, heart and lung disease, and stress-related illnesses. This is understandable since these ailments can be the most costly to organizations and individuals. But if we wish to achieve greater success, we must broaden our thinking about wellness programs.
Typically, our first measures of success rely on participation of employees; at first it's completing a health risk assessment or biomedical testing to find out where each individual is in terms of his/her own health. Once the results of the health risk assessments and aggregated biomedical results are in, organizations can begin putting programs in place that will result in the necessary changes. Ultimately, a successful wellness program will result in changes in their employees' health and in the organization's medical spend due to the improved health of their employees.
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