Chronic Disease Affects Half of Your Employees
Help Your Workforce Prevent Illness
Preventing disease and illness creates healthier workplaces, homes, and communities. Better health impacts our communities and our economy in positive ways, like increased workplace productivity.
- With better health, adults are more productive and at work more days. Preventing disease increases productivity and saves your company up to $200 to $440 per person each year.
- With better health, children are in school more days and are better able to learn. Numerous studies have found that regular physical activity supports better learning. Student fitness levels have been correlated with academic achievement, including improved math, reading and writing scores.
- With better health, seniors keep their independence longer. Support for older adults who choose to remain in their homes and communities and retain their independence (“aging in place”) helps promote and maintain positive mental and emotional health.
Click here to read more about the National Prevention Strategy.
Three Ways The Other Health Plan Can Help
First, TOHP focuses on real change – not quick fixes or temporary solutions. To make a lasting difference, you need to have a culture that supports your employees’ efforts to change their behavior and consequently their health risks.
Second, TOHP isn’t tied to your health insurance. This gives you the flexibility to use TOHP as an ongoing program for all of your employees – whether they are insured or not. You don’t have to worry about what will happen to your health improvement program if you decide to switch insurance carriers. And, you can dispel the perception employees may have about insurance carriers using their information from health risk assessments for other reasons – like determining health coverage eligibility.
Finally, TOHP is flexible and provides many levels of tools and support. We help you create a program to fit your employees’ interests and your needs as an employer so you can create a sustainable culture of health within your company.
Call (877) 441-8647 to learn more about how TOHP can help improve your employees’ health.
Contents for this article are from www.healthcare.gov and their news release entitled “The National Prevention Strategy: America’s Plan for Better Health and Wellness.”