Worksite Wellness Programs

• Yield a $3 to $6 return on investment for each dollar invested. (When focused on lifestyle behavior change.)

• It takes about 2 to 5 years after the initial program investment to realize these savings. (CDC, Cardiovascular Disease and the Workforce)

Unhealthy Employees Can Raise the Cost of Doing

Business

• The cost of absenteeism• The cost of worker’s compensation• The cost of health benefits• The cost of low productivity

Physical Inactivity

• Is THE major public health problem of our time.(Exercise is Medicine, 2009)

3 Factors Determine our Health and Longevity

Genetics Environment

Behavior

3 Factors Determine our Health and Longevity

Genetics

3 Factors Determine our Health and Longevity

GeneticsEnvironment

1900

Leading Causes of death in 1900

Pneumonia / Influenza

Tuberculosis

Infectious Diarrhea

All 3 mainly related to environmental factors

(Exercise is Medicine, 2009)

3 Factors Determine our Health and Longevity

GeneticsEnvironment

1900

Behavior2004

Leading Causes of Death in 2004 (Actual count)

• Heart Disease 652,486• Cancer 533,888• Stroke 150,074• Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease 121,987• Accidents 112,012• Diabetes 73,138• Alzheimer’s Disease 65,965• Influenza / Pneumonia 59,664• Renal Disease 42,480• Septicemia 33,373

Actual Causes of DeathLeading Risk Factors of those top 3

Deaths per Year in U.S. (1,000s)

• Tobacco 435• Inactivity/Poor diet 400• Alcohol 85• Toxic Substances 55• Microbial agents 43• Motor vehicle crashes 43 • Incidents involving firearms 29• Sexual behaviors 20• Illicit use of drugs 17

The prescription:

30 minutes of moderate intensity walking a day /

five days a week (US Surgeon General)

Irrefutable Evidence for Exercise

in the Prevention of Disease.

(30 minutes of moderate intensity walking a day / five days a week)

• Diabetes (30%)

• Breast Cancer (20 – 80%)

• Colon Cancer (40%)

• Hypertension (40%)

• Heart Disease (50%)

• Reduces Cholesterol• Fights Depression• Hip Fractures (55%)

• Dementia (40%)

• Cardiovascular-related Death• Coronary Artery Disease (50%)

• Falls

If we had a pill that conferred all the proven health benefits of exercise, we would find a way to make sure every employee had access to this

wonderful drug.

Other benefits• More energy• Helps you relax and feel less tense.• Feel more in control, more alert, and more

positive.• Improved sleep.• Lose extra pounds and maintain weight.• Helps controls your appetite.• Tones your muscles.

Fitness Vs Fatness• Better be fat and fit than

skinny and unfit. • Low level of fitness is a

bigger risk factor for mortality, than mild-moderate obesity.

• Benefits of physical activity are the same, regardless of how much you weigh.

(Exercise is Medicine, 2009)

Physical Activity

• Physical activity results in a longer and healthier life.

• No matter what country.• No matter what age.• No matter how healthy or what the

disease. (Exercise is Medicine, 2009)

Activity Level and Health Claims

• Health claims increase as activity levels decrease.

• Inactive persons cost $1,543 per year more than active ones. (Exercise is Medicine, 2009)

What is PACE?

Physical Activity Comes Easy

Social Marketing Campaign

What is the message?

Walk at least 30 minutes a day, 5 days

a week.

What needs to be done?

Be Active Your Way!

Using PACE to Promote Worksite Wellness

Power Point Presentations

Using PACE to Promote Worksite Wellness

Printed Material-Log books-Fact sheets

Using PACE to Promote Worksite Wellness

PACE Break Table tents and

door knob hangers

Using PACE to Promote Worksite Wellness

Logo RecognitionPrompting employees to remember the

message.Newsletters, paycheck stubs, memo’s, website links.

Using PACE to Promote Worksite Wellness

Newsletter Inserts

Pay Check Stuffers

Walking, at moderate intensity, 30 minutes a day, five days a week will:Reduce your risk of breast cancer by 20 - 80%. (National Cancer Institute, 2010)

30 minutes of moderate-intensity walking a day / five days a week will . . .

Reduce your risk of colon cancer by 40%. (National Cancer Institute, 2010)

Using PACE to Promote Worksite Wellness

PACE Websitewww.ecdhd.com/pace

-Tool to log minutes walked-Tool for more information about physical activity

-Add as a link for easy access.

Using PACE to Promote Worksite Wellness

Banners and Posters

Using PACE to Promote Worksite Wellness

CD – PACE tool kit for employers

Do something for yourself today.

Take a walk.