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Title: Overcoming the Small Business and Consumer Wellness Barriers with MyWellSteps


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Overcoming the Small Business and Consumer
Wellness Barriers with MyWellSteps

• Dr. Steven Aldana
• Todd Powell
• Matt Coen

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Changing Behaviors

• Clinics
• Families
• Worksites

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High Blood Pressure
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Systolic Blood Pressure and Stroke
Relative risk
Systolic Blood Pressure
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The Seventh Report of the Joint National
Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation,
and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (2003)
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The Seventh Report of the Joint National
Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation,
and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (2003)
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The Seventh Report of the Joint National
Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation,
and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (2003)
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Lifestyle and Lifestyle with Drugs
Change in blood pressure mmHg
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Third Report of the National Cholesterol
Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on
Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High
Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Panel III)
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Third Report of the National Cholesterol
Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on
Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High
Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Panel III)
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How do we help families?
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Worksites

• Small Businesses defined as having less than 100
  employees
• Large businesses also have small business
  characteristics

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Where Americans Work
Source IDC,2005
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Small businesses

• Employ half of all workers
• Provide 60 to 80 of new jobs annually
• Pay 44.3 of total U.S. payroll
• Produce more than 50 of GDP
• Are 3 franchises

Source SBA, "Small Business by the Numbers,"
June 2004
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Small Business Survival Rates
Source SBA, "Small Business by the Numbers," May
2002
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Reasons They Fail

• Started for the wrong reasons
• Poor management
• Insufficient capital
• Poor location
• Lack of planning
• Overexpansion

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Reasons They Fail

• Started for the wrong reasons
• Poor management
• Insufficient capital
• Poor location
• Lack of planning
• Overexpansion

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• POLL

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Small Businesses are

• hardest hit by health insurance costs and less
  able to do anything about it
• most likely to have substance abuse cases
• more easily disrupted by an unhealthy employee
• lack onsite wellness support staff or expertise
• hesitant to believe business case for wellness...

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Why Comprehensive Wellness Doesnt Work in Small
Businesses
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Florida Power and Light
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Florida Power and Light
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• Health Risk Assessment
• Assess and track health behaviors
• Maintain health
• Address health risks

• Wellness Programs
• Active expansion
• Retiree communications/awareness program

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Small Business Benefits...

• improved morale
• improved communication among work groups
• decreased absenteeism
• increased employee loyalty to your organization
• improved bottom line
• Improve employee and dependent health

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Small Business Limitations

• Cant get aggregate HRA data
• May not work as well with spouses and dependents
• Cost prohibitive to do onsite visits
• Limited ability to impact health care costs

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Crazy busy...
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Wellness in Small Businesses must be

• extremely simple to implement
• good enough to impact employee health
• affordable
• fun
• flexible to work in different settings
• able to work in small groups or even 1

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Ideas from Canada

• http//www.healthyalberta.com/HealthyPlaces/206.ht
  m

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http//mywellsteps.com
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Paying for Wellness
100 of cost paid by the employees
100 of cost paid by employer carrier health
provider broker other
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Tax Savings in Iowa

• http//www.idph.state.ia.us/iowansfitforlife/commo
  n/pdf/tax_credit_plan.pdf

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http//www.presidiobenefits.com/Home/index.html
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www.wellsteps.com