“We are in an era of new risks, and new risks require new risk assessments. It’s very likely your 2017 employee health risk assessment looks much like your 1997 employee health risk assessment, except with reversed dietary advice on carbohydrates. Good health is about much more than that.”
The possibility of carbohydrates causing diabetes years from now, while real, pales in comparison to the major risks employees face this year: opioid abuse, tick-borne illness, and overdiagnosis/overtreatment of the “worried well,” to name just three. Traditional HRA advice (that the road to good health is paved with kale, steps, and seat belts) has become obsolete in light of these and other major risks. This traditional advice ignores the realities that:
• The leading cause of death in employees under 50 is opioid overdose, not heart attacks or diabetes.
• In many states, younger employees face a far greater but more preventable risk of tick-borne illness than heart attacks.
• America performs twice as many CT scans, MRIs, stents and spinal fusions as the average developed country…but has worse outcomes at much higher cost.
At the end of each quiz, users receive a detailed report. Bottom line: “The Quizzify HRA exceeds the legal requirements while reducing the legal risk for employment-based wellness programs.”
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