Learning a few numbers—through a health screening—will tell employees a lot about their health. A screening measures an employee’s risk factors, such as body weight, cholesterol, blood pressure and glucose. Screenings help employees identify issues with their health and engage in healthier behavior

1. Start with screenings
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INVEST IN
EMPLOYEE
HEALTH

2. 74% OF EMPLOYERS
INCLUDE A BIOMETRIC
SCREENING AS PART
OF THEIR WORKPLACE
WELLNESS PROGRAMS.
HERE’S WHY.
Source: Willis 2014 Health and Productivity Survey

3. Source: 2012 annual report for the HERO Employee Health Management Best
Practice Scorecard in Collaboration with Mercer.
LOWER COSTS.
Employers reported
better health:
BOOST HEALTH AND
Employers reported better
financial outcomes:
When using screening as part of a corporate
wellness program:
37%
34%
Greater health risk
improvement
Lower health care
cost trend

4. A biometric screening is a health examination that
measures an employee’s risk factors:
ENGAGE EMPLOYEES
IN THEIR HEALTH.
Source: The Kaiser Family Foundation 2013 Employer Health Benefits Survey,
http://kff.org/report-section/2013-summary-of-findings/
Screenings help employees
identify issues with their
health and engage in
healthier behavior.
Cholesterol
Body weight Blood pressure
Glucose

5. A biometric screening provides a baseline
assessment of your employees’ health
status regarding obesity, blood pressure,
blood glucose, total cholesterol, HDL and
LDL cholesterol, and triglycerides.
PROVIDE A
BASELINE.
blood glucose HDL/LDL cholesterol
total cholesterol triglyceridesblood pressure
obesity
=

6. IDENTIFY
HEALTH
RISKS.
Screenings can help detect disease in
its early and most treatable stages—
even before symptoms are recognized.
Screening results give participants an
opportunity to identify health risks that
may not be apparent.

7. DID YOU KNOW?
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; American Medical Association
21 MILLION
67 MILLION
8.1 MILLION
AMERICANS HAVE DIABETES
WITH HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
DON’T KNOW THEY HAVE IT.
ARE ATTRIBUTED TO CHRONIC
CONDITIONS THAT ARE PREVENTABLE.
HAVE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
MORE ARE UNDIAGNOSED.
1 IN EVERY 3AMERICAN ADULTS.
HALF OF PEOPLE
THAT’S
75% OF HEALTH
CARE COSTS

8. CREATE
SMALL
STEPS TO
BEHAVIOR
CHANGE.
Biometric screenings provide a
snapshot of a participant’s health that
prompts them to take action.
Source: HealthFitness screening event satisfaction survey data collected from
113,204 participants in 2011.
98% OF SCREENING PARTICIPANTS
said they plan to take steps to
change unhealthy behaviors that
lead to health risks.

9. $
HELP MANAGE
HEALTH CARE
COSTS.
Source: Aon Hewitt, 2012 Health Care Survey
When employers target and affect three
health risks among their population, they can
save $700 per employee per year.
PER YEAR.
EMPLOYERS CAN SAVE
$700 PER EMPLOYEE

10. REDUCE
Health risks
IMPROVE
Health status
REDUCE
Health care costs
IMPROVE
Productivity
IMPROVE
Performance
$
When properly integrated with a corporate
wellness plan, screenings can help reduce
health risks, improve health status, reduce
health care costs, and improve productivity
and performance of the workforce.
Source: Biometric health screening for employers: consensus statement of the Health Enhancement Research Organization, American
College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and Care Continuum Alliance. J Occup Environ Med. 2013;55(10):1244-51.
BENEFITS OF SCREENINGS.
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11. Please contact HealthFitness at 800.639.7913
or visit us at www.healthfitness.com.
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