Worksite Health Promotion Programs enhance the overall health and productivity of your company

Worksite Health Promotion Programs enhance the overall health and productivity of your organization!

Benefits For Employers:

· Enhanced employee productivity

· Improved health care costs management

· Decreased rates of illness and injuries

· Reduced employee absenteeism

.Develops employee leadership skills

Benefits For Employees:

· Lower levels of stress

· Increased well-being, self-image and self-esteem
.improved physical fitness

· Increased stamina

· Potential weight reduction

Benefits For The company:

· Your Company is more competitive in the global market place

A survey (u.s.a) of research on 17 worksite exercise programs supports the view that these activities improve employee fitness and help reduce health risks. Employers also benefit from reduced absenteeism and lower medical costs.

Participating in such fitness programs is important because sedentary living can have an adverse impact on an individual's health. First, sedentary living habits lead to a low level of physical fitness. For example, a sedentary 35-year-old man has the same physical fitness level as an active 55-year-old man. Second, sedentary living habits and low physical fitness have been linked to diseases such as hypertension, obesity, cancer, stress, depression and coronary heart disease.

Benefits

The results from programs that measured the impact of exercise on absenteeism show mostly favorable effects. For example, some company experienced an almost 50-percent drop in average absenteeism among program participants relative to the year prior to the fitness program, while another company reported a net reduction of 4.7 hours of sick leave per employee per year for program participants. Also, one company had a 20.1-percent decrease in average disability days among program participants.

In addition, direct medical and health care cost savings also have been documented in several studies of worksite exercise programs