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Health Costs – Why you should Care about Employee Wellness Program? (The Guardian 7/3/2016)

How Wellness Programs help Employers control healthcare expenses  Health care costs have been steadily rising for the past four decades and present a major challenge to employers. As a result, executing strategies to contain escalating health care costs has become a business imperative for today’s companies. Four key strategies used by Employers to control costs are: Reduce the number of

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Transform your Workforce

Marathon running is becoming popular across the globe because preparing and running a marathon helps individuals not only become healthier and fit, but also develop critical life skills and business skills. ImpactAfya, a Corporate Wellness Service Provider in East Africa is excited to launch its multi-dimensional Marathon Training package to promote healthy lifestyle, critical skills along with employee engagement and

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The Sitting Disease – An Occupational Hazard (The Guardian – 01/03/2016)

We hope you are having a terrific Tuesday. We want to share with you a question from one of our readers, who prefers anonymity – Why would a Company invest in staff wellness? Our response is – Why would a Company not invest in staff wellness, when research after research points to tremendous benefits? To quote Harvard Business Review –

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Are you Tracking Your Employee Absenteeism and Presenteeism??

Absenteeism forms 7% and presenteeism 58% of health care costs based on a composite of selected studies on Employee Health Related Costs according to the Society for Human Resource Management Foundation (SHRM). Check out my column titled “Corporate Wellness” on page 3 of  the Smart Money section in today’s Guardian, discussing why companies are implementing Wellness Programs to track and reduce employee

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Concluding the Session Series with Interact Club at H.O.P.A.C.

Last session of our series with Interact Club at H.O.P.A.C. We discussed Non-communicable diseases, risks of sedentary lifestyle and brain power…..”Healthy Body – Healthy Mind”…. The kids are planning to suggest a 5 min “Get Moving” break at start of each class at their own school and the public schools they support……Can’t wait to see this happen.

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The Power of Employee Well-Being

Employees are considered a company’s greatest asset and their health issues can dramatically affect the workplace. Employees who are not healthy have lower levels of productivity and higher health costs. According to the Corporate Wellness Magazine, every $1 invested in employee wellness programs yields roughly $4 in savings through reduced sick days, higher productivity and decreased overall health costs. With

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Top 10 Tips for your Wellness Program

Here are top 10 tips for designing and implementing an effective Employee Wellness Program: Deciding who your program is for For reasons of both cost and common sense, one of the first things to consider is exactly who, within your employee population, you are implementing the Wellness Program for. If your workforce is like the most, it includes people with

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Weekly Session Series on health and wellness with Interact Club at H.O.P.A.C.

ImpactAfya is conducting weekly session series during the month of January, 2016 with the Interact Club at Haven of Peace Academy, Dar es Salaam.  Session topics: Drug Addiction, Communicable diseases – namely: Cholera, Ebola, Malaria, River Blindness ending with a session dedicated to HIV/AIDS.  Thrilled that the kids will take messages to family, friends, their peers at H.O.P.A.C. and to

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