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  • Preventive Medicine
  • Health Economics

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  • Workplace wellness programs are increasingly common.
  • Outcome-based incentives aim to motivate health behavior change.
  • Biometric screenings are key tools for assessing employee health risks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess longitudinal changes in employee biometrics.
  • To correlate biometric changes with incentive thresholds.
  • To evaluate the effectiveness of incentivized screening programs.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective cohort analysis of 26,388 employees.
  • Inclusion of participants from a voluntary, incentive-based biometric screening program.
  • Tracking of key health metrics including BMI, cholesterol, glucose, and blood pressure over time.

Main Results:

  • Participants not meeting baseline thresholds demonstrated average reductions: BMI (1%), glucose (8%), systolic blood pressure (9%), diastolic blood pressure (8%), and total cholesterol (8%) by year two.
  • Observed health improvements were generally sustained or progressed in subsequent years.
  • Significant positive health index changes were noted in high-risk individuals.

Conclusions:

  • Financially incentivized biometric screening programs can lead to measurable health improvements in employees.
  • Sustained engagement with such programs correlates with ongoing positive health trends.
  • Further investigation is warranted to identify specific drivers of health improvement within these programs.