The Return on Investment (ROI) for Employee Health and Wellness Programs

Workplace health and wellness programs report an average ROI of 3, returning $3 for every $1 invested.

Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution!
-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

[adiposerex]

I have been present when my spouse speaks with his physicians. My husband's heart is bad. We know that is lifestyle caused, but not a word was mentioned by these "people of science?".

[KurtMcDowellOKC]

My company has been in the employee incentive and recognition space for over thirty years and about 15 years ago, many of the companies that we did safety programs for decided to add a wellness component. We saw similar numbers with a high of 12 to 1 return on one company. Over the last 5-7 years we've seen a decline in wellness initiatives even thought technology and the ability to track behaviors (which is how we measure) has become a lot easier. Interestingly enough, just having employees do a wellness check once per year yielded the biggest impact of any other behavioral factor in lowering health, safety, absenteeism, etc. Productivity usually got a 4-7% bump as well. Unfortunately (not getting political here) but Obamacare caused many companies to drop many incentives initiatives since it was hard to gauge the increase in healthcare spend even though the ROI of wellness was/is so apparent.

[moresalad]

Thank you for taking my question!! This is what I was hoping for!

[NeneChan]

thank you for all your hardwork and your videos Doc, your channel is a blessing. Keep it up please!

[KJSvitko]

It is just crazy that Doctors do not get nutrition training in Medical schools.
Every doctor visit should include some nutrition discussion. The majority of the population is over weight or obese leading to high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer. Schools and hospital cafeterias should be leading the way to good health by setting the example of what is a healthy meal and teaching people what to eat and why.. Every person in the hospital for heart disease should have a nutrition class before being checked out from the hospital with follow up education and training in nutrition. Medicare and Medicaid should require patient nutrition education as part of their standard of care. Nutrition information should be run on the hospital TV channel.

[sillyhead]

This video is fantastic, as are all of those that are uploaded by this channel, but what exactly does a health and wellness program look like? Like what's the money that these ROI calculations are able to return being spent on?

[KJSvitko]

Businesses that are providing employee heath insurance need to become more pro active in promoting employee health.
The cost to the company and society is enormous.

[wameres]

I think instant gratification is the problem with not wishing to invest in these interventions to save lives later.

[kazuoua]

Companies certainly have an incentive to keep their employees healthy but I would argue that the ones who should have the highest incentive should be the employees themselves and if they don't, no amount of tweaking of the healthcare system will help.

[eelkeaptroot]

You'd think at least hospitals would see the ROI when it comes to employee health...

[samuelbarrett]

Who would have thought that helping employees worry less about things they shouldn't have to worry about would allow them to focus more time and energy on their workplace?

[catAfaable]

Some say people that workout an hour every day end up spending 10 years of their lives exercising which makes it not worth doing cause at the end they won’t live 10 years longer, so the maths doesn’t add up

[LincolnClay]

Considering you like helping people, why aren't you talking about the insane amount of these 'excess deaths'... And warning them that they shouldn't put mystery juice in their body.