Healthy Living News and Research Update
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Healthy Living News and Research Update November 20, 2017 The materials in this document are provided to inform and support those groups that are implementing the SelectHealth Healthy Living product as part of their employee wellness program. We welcome your feedback and suggestions. Best Regards, Tim Tim Butler, MS, MCHES Senior Wellness Program Management Consultant 801-442-7397 [email protected] Upcoming Wellness Events • Annual Utah Worksite Wellness Conference, May 9-10, 2018, at the Salt Lake City Marriott University Park • 28th Annual Art & Science of Health Promotion Conference, March 26-30, 2018, San Diego, California Workplace Wellness • Rising Diabetes Rates Are Costly for Employers • The High Cost Of Mental Disorders: Facts For Employers • Wellness at work: The promise and pitfalls • Inter-Quest is Blue Zones approved • Supervisor Support Critical to Workforce Readiness and Employee Well-Being • Organizational health: A fast track to performance improvement • The four building blocks of change • APA Recognizes Five Organizations for Healthy Workplace Practices Lifestyle Medicine News • AHA: 130/80 mm Hg Is New National BP Target • Nearly half of U.S. adults will have high blood pressure under new guidelines • How to Lower Your Blood Pressure • ‘Fat but Fit’? The Controversy Continues • Type 2 diabetes linked to metabolic health in obesity • AHA: Sudden Cardiac Death Risk Up for Young With Diabetes • Unlocking the Secrets of the Microbiome • New Study Shows Antioxidant-Rich Foods Diminish Diabetes Risk • Exercise may help prevent low back pain or make it less severe • Another reason to exercise: Protecting your sight • Middle-Aged and Impaired? More Common Than You Might Think • Diabetes of the brain is connected to Alzheimer's, new study shows • Chronic Kidney Disease Is Rising Among Commercially Insured, Working-Age Adults With Diabetes • New insights into why sleep is good for our memory • Overweight, obesity-related cancers increasing in the United States • ACE-SPONSORED RESEARCH: What Is the Optimal FIT to Reduce Sedentary Behavior to Improve Cardiometabolic Health? • Aerobic exercise: 'A maintenance program for the brain' Upcoming Wellness Events • Annual Utah Worksite Wellness Conference, May 9-10, 2018, at the Salt Lake City Marriott University Park Register here today! • 28th Annual Art & Science of Health Promotion Conference, March 26-30, 2018, San Diego, CA Register for Conference › https://www.healthpromotionconference.com/conference-details/event-registration/ Workplace Wellness Rising Diabetes Rates Are Costly for Employers Lifestyle-management programs can help people with, or at risk of developing, Type 2 diabetes By Stephen Miller, CEBS, Nov 14, 2017 https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/benefits/pages/rising-diabetes-rates-costly-for-employers.aspx Type 2 diabetes, characterized by high blood sugar and insulin resistance, and linked to unhealthy diets and a lack of regular exercise, is increasing among U.S. adults. That translates into high costs for employers—more than $20 billion annually due to unplanned, missed days of work. The Cost of Diabetes in the U.S.: Economic and Well-Being Impact, a new report by Gallup researchers and Sharecare, a health and wellness engagement firm, was released to coincide with World Diabetes Day on Nov. 14. November is also recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among others, as National Diabetes Month, a time for promoting awareness about managing diabetes. Being obese (severely overweight) is a leading risk factor for developing diabetes, the report noted. People with diabetes have much higher rates of other chronic disease such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart attack and depression, and they are less likely to get regular exercise or engage in other healthy behaviors. The findings are based on a subset of 354,473 telephone interviews with U.S. adults across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, conducted from January 2015 through December 2016 as part of the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index. Diabetes cost analysis findings were drawn from research by the American Diabetes Association. "While most clinicians agree that managing diabetes improves health and reduces medical costs, the benefit to employers also extends to a more productive workforce," said Sharecare Vice President Sheila Holcomb. "An opportunity exists for employers to partner with the medical community, specifically certified diabetes educators at local and regional hospitals, to offer diabetes education and training to their employees." Helping employees to keep their blood glucose within an appropriate range can have "tangible and proven value for both the individual and the company's bottom line," she said. [SHRM members-only toolkit: Designing and Managing Wellness Programs] Weight Management and Exercise For World Diabetes Day, the personal finance website WalletHub produced a Diabetes Facts & Statistics infographic, drawing on data from the American Diabetes Association, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and others. Among the numbers: 90 percent of Americans with Type 2 diabetes are overweight or obese. There is a 26 percent decrease in the risk of diabetes among those who get 2.5 hours of exercise each week. "As the prevalence of diabetes rises, its impact strikes at the vitality of everyday life," said Steven Edelman, founder and director of the nonprofit organization Taking Control of Your Diabetes. Employers in collaboration with health care providers can make available "lifestyle management programs and education specifically targeted at [those with] diabetes and prediabetes." Related SHRM Articles: • Defusing the Diabetes Workforce 'Time Bomb', SHRM Online Benefits, February 2014 • HR Technology: Help Employees Get Healthy, HR Magazine, July 2013 • Managing Diabetes: Incentives and 'Coaches' Improve Health, Lower Costs, SHRM Online Benefits, May 2009 The High Cost Of Mental Disorders: Facts For Employers Tufts Medical Center Program on Health, Work and Productivity By Debra Lerner, MSc, PhD, , Mercedes Lyson, PhD, Eileen Sandberg, MBA, PhD, and William H. Rogers, PhD http://www.onemindinitiative.org/the-business-case INTRODUCTION Following decades of considering company health care expenditures as a liability, many business leaders now recognize that employee health contributes to business success. Sustaining employee health is an opportunity – an investment worth making and not simply a cost to be avoided. Increasingly employee health is seen as means to improving business performance, paying dividends to the bottom line, employee engagement, well-being and individual quality of life. Businesses nationally have been increasing the scope of their employee health services and resources, giving particular attention to costly health problems like heart disease, cancer, and musculoskeletal conditions, and related risk factors for costly conditions like obesity, tobacco smoking, sedentary lifestyle and stress. Yet, when both health care and productivity costs are tallied, mental disorders represent the single most expensive category of health problems to business. Mental disorders include common conditions such as depression and anxiety as well as alcohol misuse and substance abuse. The level of priority and investment given to mental disorders in the workplace has not been on par with the degree of attention placed on physical health problems. Paradoxically, this is happening despite significant treatment advances, growth in the demand for workers with high-level cognitive and interpersonal capabilities and research documenting the huge cost of mental disorders to society.1 In business matters, employers simply would not tolerate the current situation for managing depression and other mental disorders- the wasted money, poor results and lack of access to needed, effective resources. Annually in the U.S., an estimated $87.5 billion is spent on health care for mental disorders while another $44 billion is spent on lost work productivity due to depression alone.2 Driven by their frequent occurrence and co-occurrence with other health problems, mental disorders are, at a population level, among the most costly illnesses (Figure 1).3 For privately insured individuals, many of whom have employer-sponsored coverage, mental disorders rank fifth in total health care expenditures among women and seventh among men. Within the nation’s top 5% of its costliest patients, the group with mental disorders is second highest in total expenditures (Figure 2).4 Despite having high total health care expenditures (these are the costs of care for all health problems incurred by adults with mental disorders), it is incorrect to conclude that people with mental disorders are getting the care they need. In fact, many adults with mental disorders have trouble accessing high quality care (Figure 3).5 In a recent national study, 8.4% of U.S. adults had positive depression screening results but most (71%) did not receive any treatment. Of those receiving any depression treatment, the quality of the care received was questionable; 30% of the treated were still depressed and 78% were experiencing serious mental distress.6 Such statistics, depicting the troubled state of care, are reminiscent of the situation patients with heart disease faced decades ago. Access the complete report at: The High Cost Of Mental Disorders Facts For Employers Wellness at work: The promise and pitfalls October 2017, Commentary,