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Health care programs to significantly reduce risks to health, wellness, studied New study finds peer

Dallas, TX Jacksonville, FL (Vocus) 13 October 2010

with employers and individuals continue with rising costs of health care, the fight to a new study shows that it is a strategy that has proven to slow the pace of this growing burden: the health care. Published today in the public health management, â? The impact of the prevention plan on employee health risks reductionism? shows that prevention programs into clinical practice of preventive medicine is based are able to achieve measurable results in reducing health risks in a single year.

â? The United States is facing a serious health care cost crisis todayâ? largely through a health crisis caused by a growing burden of chronic diseases. Under the surface in the company are the real drivers of rising health care costs: health risks, â? Said Ronald Loeppke, MD, MPH, Vice President of U.S. Preventive Medicine and lead author of the study population health management *. Americans now increasingly succumbing to avoidable risks of life, the quality and duration of their lives erode -???? and this trend is a tsunami of the increased use of medical services, flood our health care system and have an overwhelming economic burden on our society.â?

trend of the inflation costs of health care today is untenable. Since 1999, the average premium for family health insurance 131 percent, according to a survey of 2009 Kaiser Family Foundation. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates that 75% contain healthcare costs by preventing chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diabetes.

The study examined participants health at U.S. Preventive Medicine? s Prevention PlanTM? a prevention program for the clinical practice of preventive medicine is based? and found that after a year, almost half (42%) of the 2,600 members of the plan a fall seen the number of health risks * are high they faced, with 64% of participants at high risk to reduce their risk level and 87% to maintain the participant with low risk their health. To high risk factors for health, that the largest falls were suffered: blood pressure (43%), fasting glucose (31%), stress (25%), alcohol (24%) and cholesterol (23 %).

â? These results are significant and show a significant reduction of risks to the health of workers in the year to plan on prevention. This is scientifically proven that the welfare of works or structure on the pillars of prevention, â? Loeppke said.

not only health risks, the use of health services go, they are also a drain on the profitability of the companies with employees in poor health to work more and miss less productive at work. Therefore, employers are starting to realize they must invest in the health of their employees to benefit their business success and continue to drive sustained employee health programs provide.

Let’s face it: Good health is good business, â? Said Christopher Fey, Chairman and CEO, U.S. Preventive Medicine. â? Employers are aware, and change the paradigm of health care benefits from a focus on the treatment of diseases to proactive health maintenance. Although the concept of prevention is not new, this research shows that, when offered a comprehensive program of prevention plans employers offer no panacea to first reduce costs and increase productivity.â? ?

By integrating clinical basis of preventive medicine offers to improve The Prevention Plan employees a range of interventions to raise awareness of their personal health risks and a variety of interactive resources for coaches to increase Internet and Health to enable staff to their health. In addition, these programs have a high turnout and participation rates if they are supported by a culture of health, communication and frequent strong incentives through the employer.

â? Aon Corporation is extremely pleased with our partnership with U.S. Preventive Medicine to plan for prevention, promoting healthy behaviors and increase our efforts at prevention, early detection and cancer satisfactory? Said Dr. Paul Berger, Medical Director and Senior Vice President of Aon Consulting. â? Our results show a significant proportion of used in high-risk factors in order to migrate a medium risk and those with risk factors for low-risk way after they migrate to the prevention plan for a year. We expect that in the near future, this will lead to lower claims and a healthier and more productive workforce. “

For additional details on the results of research in one? The impact of the prevention plan to the employee health risk reduction, â? Click here http://www.uspreventivemedicine.com/Wellness/Research.aspx.

About the Study

â? The impact of the plan for the prevention of risks to the health of employees reductionism? 15 measures analyzed changes in health risk in a cohort of 2606 employees of several employers’ groups who have completed a risk assessment of primary health care, blood screening and biometric data in 2008 and re-population of this cohort in 2009. * By using a combination of a risk assessment of reported self-health and biometric screening, participants in the study of the program in three different categories of health risks, the number of people who risk the basic health, such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure or voltage. low-risk employees are defined as zero to two health risk, employee risk from three fifty-seven employees and more than five high risk. The study was written by Drs. Loeppke Ron Dee Edington and Sami Beg

About Prevention Plan? ¢

The Prevention Plan is to provide innovative prevention, which allows members touch with assistive technology / sublime and encouragement they need to get healthy. The plan is based on the clinical science of preventive medicine and is based the continuum of preventive intervention: primary (well-being and health promotion for healthy people to keep healthy), secondary (screening to detect early detection) and tertiary (early treatment evidence based on complications and impediments to ) reduce. Support services include personalized health prevention plans, 24 / 7 nurse line, one-on-one coaching for health, competition, group events and employer incentives.

U. S. Preventive Medicine ®

U.S. Preventive Medicine ® (www.USPreventiveMedicine.com) leads a movement for comprehensive health care based on life and money by saving people healthy and better management of chronic diseases before they progress. The company provides a continuum of prevention programs? A primary, secondary and tertiary? , The science-based clinical preventive medicine. The world? The first preventive health benefit, prevention de la Plana? ¢, will identify any of the traditional welfare individualism? High health risks and design a personalized action plan by trainers 24×7 support nurse. The company is accredited to the promotion of wellness and health and NCQA Disease Management.

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