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A 3 page brief look at the many ramifications of health promotion in the workplace. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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being explored increasingly by American employers due to the fact that the U.S. Surgeon General has indicated that roughly 60 percent of Americans are both overweight and out of shape
due to inactivity (Drennan, Ramsay and Richey, 2006, p. 26). This fact has serious implications in regards to worker productivity and health. An extensive study conducted by Beauvais, et
al, which examined literature from 1980 to 2005, demonstrates that that there is a significant correlation between how a healthcare organization manages various aspects of management, such as "expenses, fiscal
margin and asset and liability management," and the quality of care offered by the organization (Beauvais, et al, 2007, p. 2). When employees suffer the inevitable negative health consequences of
poor health habits, productivity suffers and employers are faced with decreasing quality of services and products, as well as escalating health insurance premium expenses. For quite some time, many
U.S. companies have offered financial incentives to employees in order to motive them to adopt healthy lifestyles. However, a Wall Street Journal article announced in December 2007 that some employers
were "wielding a stick as well as a carrot," in order to induce change (Knight, 2007, P. D4). For example, beginning in 2008, the parent company that owns several large
newspapers, such as the Chicago Tribune, announced that it would apply a "monthly surcharge of $100 to family premiums" in cases where the employee or a dependent use tobacco products
(Knight, 2007, p. D4). In some cases, the employees deductible could rise by as much as $2,000 (Knight, 2007). Rather than punitive measures, some employers are endeavoring to encourage
employee health as they improve safety. For example, Drennan, Ramsay and Richey (2006) report on how one organization successfully integrated a health promotion program stressing physical fitness into a daily
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