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Health Care Survey Reveals Interesting Stats
Hewitt and the National Business Group on Health’s survey reveals five key insights into how employees and their dependents view health care. In order to prepare their company health care strategies, it is critical to understand the results of the survey. Help for prescription medication is high on the list.
Employees may how to get healthy, but many are not taking action. Seventy two percent of the employees surveyed think that getting regular preventive care will result in good health. An additional 84% think that making wise decisions in their daily life will lead to overall good health. Only half of the employees think they do a great or good job of eating healthy, while less than half (46%) reported doing a great or good job of working out on a regular basis. To help with the high cost of drugs, most workers surveyed ranked prescription program assistance very high.
Participation in health programs is low, but satisfaction is high. Workers and dependents say they might know what actions they need to take to get and stay healthy, but involvement in many employer-provided health improvement programs is not as high as employers would like. The most popular programs include biometric screenings (61%), followed by online health information tools (53%) and health risk questionnaires (41%). Stress management programs and employee assistance programs (EAPs) were the least popular, with just nine percent participation in each. For workers that had dependent coverage, a prescription program was the number one satisfying benefit.
Financial motivation is a strong factor in participation but non financial, internal motivators can be just as valuable. Many businesses presume that offering cash incentives in exchange for participation will generate the best results and incent employees to participate in health care programs. Citing that it is “the right thing to do”, close to half of all workers surveyed would complete a health risk questionnaire About 30% of the participants would complete a survey if there was a penalty for not doing so and an additional 30% would do it if there was a financial incentive involved. In addition, 44% of the employees surveyed said they would be willing to take part in a wellness program offered by their employer because “it’s the right thing to do”.
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This post was written by admin on September 5, 2010
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