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C3 Collaborating for Health believes that only by working together can we make it easier to be healthy.

What price wellness?

28 February 2013
In their annual survey of US business employers, the National Business Group on Health and Fidelity Investments have found that the spend on ‘wellness-based incentives’ (to keep down insurance premiums and payout) is now $521 per employee. This is more than...
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A stressful circle

09 February 2013
A study of Swedish men from the early 1970s until 2008 has found that those who reported being under ‘permanent stress’ are at significantly higher risk of type 2 diabetes. Of the 6,828 men without any previous history of diabetes, 899 developed type 2 diabetes...
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The ROI of workplace health…

01 February 2013
The United States often leads the way in assessing workplace health programmes because the returns on investment – namely the savings that can be made on health insurance and medical payouts – are so evident. A recent report by the American College of Occupational...
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Minnesota: impact of smoke-free workplaces

31 October 2012
It has been an interesting month for research into tobacco use (including a tool to calculate the the return on investment of smoking cessation (here >>), and the reduction in harm attendant on quitting (here >>)) – and now there is evidence from...
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Scoring workplace health

18 October 2012
Launched in October 2012, the US Centers of Disease Control has produced the ‘CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard: An Assessment Tool for Employers to Prevent Heart Disease, Stroke, & Related Health Conditions’. It is ‘designed to help employers assess and...
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Making workplace health less taxing

28 September 2012
A new report by Bupa (a health-care company) has used modelling by Frontier Economics to estimate the impact on health and productivity of removing what is perceived to be a significant barrier to workplace health: the taxes levied on workplace health initiatives....
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Evolving approaches to workplace health?

16 August 2012
  A new survey by the National Business Group on Health – a US-based association of over 300 major employers – has looked at ways in which large companies are trying to rein in the seemingly inexorably rising costs of health insurance. A rise of 7 per...
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Working out at work?

19 June 2012
Employers can play an important role in encouraging and promoting health among their employees, and workplace health has been the focus of two schemes this week in the UK: it is National Bike Week (16–24 June), and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy organised...
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Long workdays and metabolic syndrome

03 June 2012
Globally, metabolic syndrome, which is a precursor to cardiovascular disease, heart attack and stroke, has become a major public health issue. In Japan, where obesity has until recent decades been quite rare, rates of metabolic syndrome have been increasing rapidly...
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Anti-obesity legislation

20 May 2012
In Malaysia, 43 per cent of adults are overweight and in 2011, 2.5 million people – 14 per cent – were obese. As part of the Malaysian government’s effort to stem the rising tide of NCDs, which are now threatening to cripple the nation’s recent rise...
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