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We at Fortitude Health & Wellness, Inc. wish you
a healthy and prosperous New Year, and hope you
make good health and healthy living a top
priority.
To get you started, we wanted to share some
information that will benefit you for many years
to come.
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Assessing Rising Healthcare Costs
We believe engaging and empowering
consumers to make knowledgeable healthcare
decisions is a fundamental priority. In
our rapidly changing healthcare
environment, consumers need information
that assists them to take an active role
in managing self-care for themselves and
their families. If we provide consumers
with information they understand, then
knowledge begins to work for consumers,
and we can deliver better, more affordable
care in local communities nationwide.
Ninety million adults in the United States
have difficulty understanding and using
healthcare information. Consumers’ main
source of health information comes from
the internet (69%), and personal
physicians (59%).
Healthcare prevention is a proactive
approach to healthcare and unfortunately,
because businesses are paying the “lion
share” of healthcare cost, it is incumbent
on employers to take a more active
approach to ensure their employees become
active in helping them lower healthcare
costs and the key to reducing healthcare
costs is prevention. Healthcare
expenditures are projected to more than
double between 2000 and 2010, and
healthcare is expected to account for 17%
of the Gross Domestic Product by 2010.
There are steps to begin prevention
strategies and the first is to conduct
hard and soft data Health Risk
Assessments. As logical as this might
seem, of eighty-four percent of businesses
and corporations with 50 or more employees
that conduct health related activities,
only twelve percent conduct health risk
assessments.
A Health Risk Assessment is a guide to
identify behaviors putting one at risk for
illness and accidents. It is designed to
improve health through individual
assessments, disease-specific
interventions, and management. Assessments
provide employers with aggregate data and
executive summary reports that yield an
overall snapshot of the assessed
population. They also provide steps
necessary to identify risk for potential
increased healthcare costs. The aggregate
report provides overall raw numbers and
corresponding percentage data from the
assessed population. The information is
then calculated to identify potential
overall risk factors and provide
appropriate consultation to address those
risks.
Corporate Wellness
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Learn to eat well and stay fit. For an
appointment with our nutritionist and fitness
instructors at Fortitude Wellness Center, call
(214) 288-8273. To obtain information about our
programs and health risk assessments, contact us
at (972) 998-0152 or email us
info@fortitudehw.com.
Have a Healthy Year,
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