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New Health Risk Assessment from Workplace Options Helps Employers to Identify Workforce Health Challenges
Low cost health risk assessment can identity behaviors among employees that increase risk for disease, illness or accidents.
Contact:
Christine Hall
chall@capstrat.com
919-882-1998
12 June 2007 – Raleigh, NC – Workplace Options (WPO), the world’s largest provider of work-life employee benefits, is offering a new, low cost heath risk assessment (HRA) to help employers identify behaviors that contribute to an increased risk for disease, illness or accidents. This health risk assessment offers all the features of other HRA’s but at a price that is affordable.
Integrating with WPO’s award-winning Advantage Web, Advantage HRA provides “before and after” data on wellness initiatives, often targeting particular health challenges within the workforce. This snapshot of employees’ current health allows employers to address potential health risks, which can lead to healthcare cost containment.
Advantage HRA is an interactive, online tool that can be completed in just minutes. It provides instant results for individual users and instant reporting for employers. The results of the HRA provide an overall health score from specific wellness categories, including: heart health; nutrition; weight management; fitness; cancer; smoking; stress; and safety.
Advantage HRA also allows employees to learn how to adopt and maintain new behaviors leading to a more healthful lifestyle. Many of these behavioral strategies, such as smoking cessation and stress management, can help them to prevent health risks from escalating into serious health conditions.
“Advantage HRA is a comprehensive assessment of the user’s current nutritional and exercise habits, heart health, cancer risk, and stress,” explained Alan King, president of WPO. “This easy-to-use assessment tool helps employees implement plans that lower their health risks and improve overall health.”
Besides being low cost, another key benefit to the Workplace Options HPA is that employers have the ability to see the progress of the health and wellness programs over an extended period of time. Using the First/Last Comparison Reporting feature, different time periods that the HRAs were taken can be viewed to evaluate individual/collective progress.
About Workplace Options
Workplace Options helps employees balance their work, family and personal life in order to make their lives healthier, easier and more productive. The company's world-class employee support and work-life services provide information, resources, referrals and consultation on a variety of issues ranging from dependent care, legal and financial issues to stress management and wellness.
Drawing from an international network of credentialed providers and professionals, Workplace Options is the world's largest integrated employee support services and work-life provider. Service centers in Raleigh. N.C., London, Toronto and Dublin support more than 32 million employees in 20,000 organizations, across 170 countries. To learn more, visit www.workplaceoptions.com.
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