一个员工健康计划的财务影响,重点关注心血管疾病风险降低和降低风险
Irena Boyce1, Jason DeVoe2, Lisa Norsen2
1UR Medicine Quality Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
|December 17, 2024
概括
综合的工作场所健康计划 (WWPs) 通过降低心血管疾病 (CVD) 风险,为雇主展示了显著的投资回报率 (ROI) 和成本节省. 投资于精心设计的WWP有利于员工健康和雇主的财务状况.
科学领域:
- 职业健康 职业健康 职业健康
- 卫生经济学 卫生经济学
- 预防性心脏病学 预防性心脏病学
背景情况:
- 工作场所健康计划 (WWPs) 的有效性各不相同,通常是由于程序设计没有标准化.
- 满足CDC标准的综合WWP已经显示出降低心血管疾病 (CVD) 风险的潜力.
- 本研究评估了基于降低心血管疾病风险的WWP的成本节约和ROI.
研究的目的:
- 评估投资的财务回报率 (ROI) 和雇主从全面的工作场所健康计划中节省的成本.
- 量化从参与WWPs的员工心血管疾病 (CVD) 风险降低中获得的经济利益.
主要方法:
- 通过对WWP参与者的现有研究和相关的CVD风险降低成本来推断成本节约.
- 根据1%的心血管疾病风险降低,根据研究人群和项目成本量身定制,计算每位参与者的年度成本节约.
- 利用先前研究的参考组来建立成本效益基准.
主要成果:
- 每个人总成本节省1224美元,每花费1美元的投资回报率为4.90美元.
- 与风险最小的个人相比,在风险较高的人群中观察到更高的ROI (男性35.4美元,女性19.2美元).
- 即使是风险最小的员工也表现出了积极的回报率 (男性为0.3美元,女性为5.0美元).
结论:
- 优先考虑与CDC标准一致的综合WWP,对于最大限度地提高健康和财务效益至关重要.
- 精心设计的WWP有效地改善了员工的健康状况,并为雇主带来了积极的投资回报率和成本节省.
- 投资于基于证据的,全面的WWP是企业的一种健全的财务策略.
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