Corporate fitness programmes and health enhancement.
The corporate environment is a convenient and practical place to promote exercise and fitness. There is now evidence that corporate sponsored fitness programs will decrease employee turnover, decrease absenteeism, decrease industrial injuries, decrease corporate medical costs, and increase productivity, in addition to the personal benefits gained by the participants.
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Cooper Clinic, Dallas, Texas 75230.
D000041:Absenteeism; D003132:Commerce; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004526:Efficiency; D015444:Exercise; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D010809:Physical Fitness; D014481:United States; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control