Fuelling the workforce - Employee wellness programmes

Clearly, medical insurance products have an impact on all these through getting employees back to work faster after recovering from illness. However, organisations also often look towards wellness programmes to address these issues through prevention of ill health. Chronic diseases are heavily influenced by people’s lifestyles. Three risk factors (low physical activity, poor diet and smoking) account for four diseases (cancer, diabetes, lung disease and heart disease) that account for more than 50% of deaths worldwide. In the UK, 78% of all years of productive life lost due to d...