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- Trends
- 64% increase in obesity since
1993
- Overweight children (6-19)
has tripled since 1986
- 2/3 of Americas workforce is
overweight or obese
- Costs – Health Care
- Obese employees costs an average of $2,256 more than healthy-weight
employees
- Obese workers have 36% higher physician visit spending, 77% higher
medication expenditure and 45% more inpatient stays over the
average-health employee.
- Costs – Absenteeism and Productivity
- 4X more likely to be absent
- 39 million lost workdays, 239
million reduced performance workdays
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- Trends
- 50% increase in diagnoses
from 1997 to 2004 (population 8% increase)
- 10.3 % of the population – up
from 5.8% in 1995
- 40% of US adults (40-70) have
“pre diabetes”
- Costs – Health Care
- Estimated annual expenditure (non hospital stays) = $13,243 vs. $2,560
- Medical expenses 2.4X higher than non diabetics
- $174 billion annually (2007)
- Costs – Absenteeism and Productivity
- $58 billion annually
- 15 million lost work days,
120 million reduced performance workdays
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- Trends
- 3 of 4 workers describe their jobs as stressful, 40% report very or
extremely stressful
- Problems at work are more strongly associated with health complaints
than are any other life
stressor-more so than even financial problems or family problems
- Costs – Health Care
- 9% of prescription drug costs
- 8% of all health care costs
- Health care expenditures are nearly 50% greater for workers who report
a high level of stress
- $200 billion annually
- Costs – Absenteeism and Productivity
- 60% of lost workdays are
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- OBESITY - $25,800 annual savings
- Health Care expenses: 10 fewer
obese employees = 10 X $2,246 = $22,460 less in health
care expenses.
- Absenteeism: 20 less sick days
(2 X 10) at an average of (40,000 salary 15% expenses / 260 workdays
per year = $177/day X 20 = $3,500 annually.
- SMOKING - $4,490 annual savings
- Two individuals quit smoking as a results of the Nuvita program. Non-smokers cost an average of
$2,245 less in health care and absenteeism expenses.
- DIABETES- $32,049 annual savings
- Three individuals reduced their diabetes risk to a healthy level. Non diabetics have $10,683 less in
health care expenditures.
- BLOOD PRESSURE - $1,920 annual savings
- One individual stopped taking blood pressure medication as a result of
the Nuvita program ($160/month medication expense)
- TOTAL = $62,529 Annual Savings
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- Click below to view employee satisfaction survey:
- http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=0pOX27WWNFvM4sh2CFVboeY7koZhM5deB50iID45ybI_3d
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