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Counties that have a higher percentage of successful small businesses also tend to have healthier residents, according to a new study published in the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.
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Health risk assessments can be a powerful tool for identifying individuals who are likely to experience health problems. Often, disease risk factors may not be recognizable until it is too late.
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Given the amount of time a person spends at work, their job can have a major impact on their health. This is why it is so important for business to offer employee wellness programs to their workers.
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Type 2 diabetes can be one of the most expensive conditions to treat. It requires frequent testing and often leads to further complications.
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When employers look at improving the chronic disease management of their workers, they typically think about physical health conditions
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Healthcare fraud is incredibly widespread, with the U.S. administering billions of dollars in inappropriate payments each year. A new report suggests that the easy availability of doctors' identification numbers may be largely to blame.
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Providing female employees with maternity management programs that give women adequate time to care for their newborns may play an important role in the neurological development of the child.
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Many adults are overweight and lead sedentary lifestyles. This contributes to higher healthcare costs for businesses, but employee wellness programs can make a major difference. Take, for example, the experience of Andrew Casper.
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Too much money is spent on traditional health services that do little to keep people well, experts say. Employee wellness programs may play a large role in solving this problem that contributes to higher healthcare costs and less healthy Americans.
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Many employers may not realize it, but they are in an excellent position to battle the rising tide of chronic health conditions like diabetes and heart disease.
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