Medical benefits are the most expensive benefits paid by employers!
Chronic
Stress
Causes 40% of all employee turnovers. (Bureau of National Affairs)
Account for nearly 70% of all Workers’ Compensation Claims. (California
Workers Compensation Institute)
Stressed employees tend to alienate customers. A study of 100 companies
found that a 5% reduction in customer defection translates from
30% to 85% loss in corporate profitability. (Frederick Reichheld
& W. Earl Sasser, published in the Harvard Business Review)
Stressed employees are 2-times more likely to be absent more than
5-times per year. (American Journal of Health Promotion)
Stressed employees are 30% more likely to have accidents. (Harvard
Business Review)
Costs $200 billion annually (International Survey Research Group)
Up to 90% of all doctors visits are directly or indirectly caused
by chronic stress. - Newsweek Magazine 2004
Excess
Weight & Obesity
65%
of Americans are overweight and 33% are obese. Obesity is classified
as a serious disease. (American Medical Association)
33%
of cancer deaths are related to improper nutrition. (American Cancer
Society)
Heart
disease is the #1 cause of death in the United States, while Diabetes
is 6th and obesity contributes to both of them. (Network News -
Netscape Navigator)
Can
cause sexual dysfunction, impotence and high blood pressure (American
Cancer Society)
Can
cause blindness, destruction of kidneys and amputation of limbs.
Food bill is about 18% higher than a person who is trim. (American
Cancer Society)
Costs
Americans $122.9 billion annually (Obesity in America.org)
Smoking
& Chewing Tobacco
24%
of Americans smoke. The rate in industries such as transportation
is as high as 40%.
Kills
1/2 million people every single year. More than cocaine, heroin,
alcohol, fire, auto accidents, homicides, suicides and AIDS all
combined.
Tobacco
products contain 4,000 chemicals, 401 poisons and 43 known cancer-causing
agents. (American Cancer Society)
1
drop of Nicotine will kill average size person in a few minutes
(American Cancer Society)
Smoking
contributes to 10% of all infant deaths, 25% of all low birth-weight,
spontaneous abortions, birth defects, stillbirths and premature
deliveries.
Smokers
who smoke one pack of cigarettes per day spend $150.00 or more per
month.
Costs
Americans $157 billion annually (American Cancer Society)
Drugs
& Alcohol
Drugs
cost: $175 billion annually (President’s Office of National Drug
Control Policy)
Alcohol
cost: $100 billion annually (National Library of Medicine)
