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is recommended for each corporate health and wellness program
that the comprehensive health assessment be performed annually,
with an ongoing comparative analysis of individual and group
trends. This is an essential employee
wellness tool in addressing health risk exposure as well
as evaluation of steps taken to address any such health risk
identified. This will also provide an assessment of change
in health risk and status based on variations in the executive
population measured from year to year. It is also recommended
that the online health risk assessment and executive
health exam be performed at approximately the same time
each year. The annual date for your corporate health and wellness
assessments will be reserved so that this will be consistent
for each company. This ensures that each business keeps their
executives’ and employees’ health and wellness as
a top priority.
 Among
many factors that cause chronic conditions, many sources report
that behavior is the leading contributor. The Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention reported that there
are 4 factors that cause chronic conditions: access to health
care, 10%; the environment, 20%; genetics, 20%; behavior
accounts for 50% of all causes of chronic conditions.
It is behavior not genetics or the environment that is driving
executive health and employee
wellness. Using this comprehensive annual health assessment
in your corporate health and wellness program will allow you
to target or identify these behaviors.
Changing the behaviors and attitudes of your
executives will not happen overnight. It will take an invested
effort over many months and years. The only way to monitor
your own return on investment and the benefits of any corporate
health and wellness program is to monitor and track changes
every year. The first year of testing sets a baseline by which
to judge the future health and health risks of your company.
Every year after this will show you if your corporate health
and wellness program is targeting the correct health risks
and helping your executives to make improvements.
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