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WHE09: What Pepsi’s 7-Year Experiment Teaches about Workforce Health Engagement
Earlier this year, the non-profit research group RAND Corporation released yet another study questioning the return on investment (ROI) of workplace wellness. RAND’s new study found that wellness can improve employee health and reduce costs, if the...
WHE08: Boosting Health Engagement with Gamification | with Josh Stevens from Keas
One of today’s hottest trends in workforce health engagement is gamification. Gamification is the use of tactics inspired by games -- especially video games -- to engage people. Think about what makes video games so alluring and habit-forming for people …...
WHE07: Pitfalls of Workplace Wellness: Does It Do More Harm Than Good? | with Al Lewis
As we discussed back in episode 4, in our interview with epidemiologist Tom Wilson, it’s a good idea to not have blind faith in wellness vendors, but to have a healthy dose of skepticism. For one thing, there are probably leaders and employees at your...
WHE06: Healthy Eating in the Workplace | with Alison Acerra from Guckenheimer
Many companies are spending huge amounts of health care dollars paying for treatment of medical conditions caused primarily by poor food choices. Then they spend money on top of that for wellness programs to encourage employees to make better food...
WHE05: New Tools for Health Care Consumerism | with Clayton Nicholas from Change Healthcare
Health care consumerism is a key part of most employers’ strategies for workforce health engagement. This involves tools, resources, education, and motivation to help employees and family members make decisions that optimize health outcomes and...
WHE04: Does It Work? An Epidemiologist’s Surprising Answer about Wellness and Other Workforce Health Engagement | with Tom Wilson from Trajectory Healthcare
It seems common sense that investing in wellness and other workforce health strategies would be worth all the money and effort that employers are putting into them these days. But what is the actual evidence that there’s a return on investment? It’s wise...
WHE03: Matching Employees with the Right Hospitals for Advanced/Specialty Care | with Rick Chelko from EdisonHealth
Through EdisonHealth, members of contracting health plans can gain access to heart, valve, spine, and transplant care at some of the highest-performing clinics and health systems in the United States. The EdisonHealth Network contracts with first-rate...
WHE02: Wellness Communication & Education: Which Info & Messages Truly Help? | with Tom Rath
One of the most common components of a workforce health strategy is wellness communication and education … messages and information to motivate and equip employees and their families to avoid or reduce health risks, improve wellbeing, and prevent the...
WHE01: 5 Components of Workforce Health Engagement
Workforce health engagement: improving the knowledge, decision-making, and behaviors of employees, their families, and organizational leaders to optimize health outcomes, control medical costs, and enhance workplace productivity. According to recent studies,...