Taking stock of wellness.
The health cost crisis has spawned a thriving cost-control industry that offers an ever-growing number of "solutions." The authors of this article encourage employers to go back to the basics in evaluating these offerings, including their wellness policies and programs. This article describes the many ways different employers do wellness, the evidence base for wellness, how employers should target wellness candidates, and the elements of success and failure for wellness initiatives.
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Kathryn
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Bruce
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D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014481:United States