Experts call companies to follow the health of workers -
A new group urges companies to improve employee health - and said the move could save up $ 30 billion per year in the cost of health care
USA Today :. Enterprises urged to follow the health workers
by frustration with decades of failed efforts to improve the health of America and reduce its spending on health care, a new institute launched an effort Wednesday attack problem at work. The habits of working adults - smoking, lack of exercise, poor diet and high stress - lay the foundations for health problems for years and decades later. Improve health habits could significantly reduce spending on health care in the long term and make them more productive and competitive American workers, said Derek Yach, Executive Director of the vitality of the Institute for Health Promotion, a think -tank which aims to reduce noncommunicable diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, mental illness and cancer (Weintraub, 6/18)
the Dallas Morning News :. Commission urges companies to report employee health
Companies should include employee health measures in their annual financial reports as part of a focus nationally on Preventive Health Care an expert commission announced Wednesday. Informing shareholders of the health of the workforce, companies can show how they focus on improving productivity and innovation, vitality Commission found Institute. employees in better health also means lower health insurance costs. The committee believes that acting on its recommendations would save the nation $ 22 billion to $ 30 billion a year in health care costs (Landers, 6/18).
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