Corporate Health and Well-being Management

A compendium of research evidence NOW ONLINE!

The use of quality research is integral to everything that we do at vielife. Our compendium of research showcases a collection of accessible global evidence for corporate health and performance management that sets out the business case for investing in health and wellbeing solutions.

The purpose of this database is to make it simple to find research relevant to work and health. The aim is not to create an exhaustive analysis, but an accessible summary of key published evidence relating to health and performance management.

Our research library is divided into 3 sections

• Section 1: The impact of health risks on medical expenses
• Section 2: The impact of health risks on absence from work and productivity
• Section 3: The business benefits of health promotion programmes

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The vielife/IHPM health and performance study

vielife, in conjunction with the Institute for Health and Productivity Management (IHPM), Harvard Medical School and Unilever, completed the world's first prospective controlled study exploring the link between health and productivity in October 2005. Measured against the control group, the multi-component health promotion programme significantly improved the health status in the intervention group over the 12 months.

The health promotion intervention led to: An 10.4% improvement in work performance with a conservative estimate of a likely annual return on investment of £6.19 for every £1 spent.

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WORKING WELL: A Global Survey of Health Promotion and Workplace Wellness Strategies

Buck Consultants Global Survey of Health Promotion and Workplace Wellness Strategies, now in its fourth year, investigates emerging trends in employer-sponsored health promotion and wellness programs. By exploring areas such as program strategy, design, objectives, incentives, measurement, evaluation, and communication, this research seeks insights into how employers around the world implement and evaluate strategic wellness initiatives. The 2010 survey also includes new data on tobacco cessation and stress management programs.

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Health Risk Assessment (HRA) validation paper

This paper demonstrates how vielife's health & well-being assessment generates reliable business focused health risk data that can be used to direct and target interventions that can suit your needs.

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Business in the Community (BITC) emotional resilience toolkit

As part of a steering group, vielife contributed to the Emotional Resilience toolkit to understand how companies can facilitate emotional resilience in the workplace. Take a read through to find out how to promote healthy behaviour in the workplace and provide training for employees and managers to recognise and take early action to ameliorate conditions that can produce stress.

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Business in the Community (BITC) - spend now, save now 2005

vielife, BITC and HR Magazine conducted the 'The spend now, save now' research in March 2005, to understand the importance attached to health at work and how companies are dealing with it. The study, which received 454 responses from Chief Executives , Finance Directors and HR Directors showed that:

• A healthy workforce is rated as one of the top five people issues that boardrooms are concerned about now
• All directors project that health at work will become more important to their business in the next three years
• Eight out of ten directors had not read or heard of the 'Health at Work' chapter in the 'Choosing Health' white paper
• There is a lack of definition of health at work and little clarity about how to measure it
• 70% of companies are not effectively promoting health & well-being at work

This report analyses how employee health & well-being at work is regarded by businesses; sets out the benefits that can be accrued from proactively investing in health at work, and how this outweighs the investment; and suggests practical approaches to improve employees' health and performance.

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The vielife/Philips lighting & wellness study

This study investigates the impact of the new Philips workplace lighting technology on the well-being and work performance of employees. vielife conducted the research with Philips Lighting. The results demonstrated a 37% improvement in self reported concentration, and 19% improvement in work performance. This research study is the first 'real world' demonstration of how new broad spectrum, high colour temperature industrial lighting technology can have a quantifiable impact on employee well-being and productivity.

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