Workplace wellness programs can generate savings.
By Katherine Baicker, David M. Cutler, Zirui Song. Health Affairs, 2010
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Amid soaring health spending, there is growing interest in workplace disease prevention and wellness programs to improve health and lower costs. In a critical meta-analysis of the literature on costs and savings associated with such programs, we found that medical costs fall by about $3.27 for every dollar spent on wellness programs and that absenteeism costs fall by about $2.73 for every dollar spent. Although further exploration of the mechanisms at work and broader applicability of the findings is needed, this return on investment suggests that the wider adoption of such programs could prove beneficial for budgets and productivity as well as health outcomes.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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- Four Decades of Frontline Service Employee Research: An Integrative Bibliometric Review (2021, background): “…on designing effective stress management interventions and organizational wellness programs to improve employee and organizational outcomes (e.g., Baicker, Cutler, and Song 2010; Richardson 2017); however, rarely do these wellness programs target the needs of FLEs (Mirabito and Berry 2015),…”
- The worldwide environment of cardiovascular disease: prevalence, diagnosis, therapy, and policy issues: a report from the American College of Cardiology. (2012, background): “Studies of workplace wellness programs suggest that healthcare costs are reduced and health outcomes improve when risk factors are reduced (147).”