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Article: Start smart on wellness: Health risk assessments pinpoint programs likely to be embraced.
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- Employee Benefit News
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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If you are considering implementing a new wellness initiative in the workplace, you can help ensure success by asking workers to take a health risk assessment first.
Health risk assessments, or appraisals, can help employers understand their workforce demographics, set priorities in their health and wellness programs and gauge employees' receptiveness toward new programs and lifestyle changes. Conversely, they can help to identify programs that aren't likely to be successful because they don't match employees' needs or interests.
For example, Kansas discovered through a risk assessment that many state employees were overweight, so it started offering ...