Costing the Effects of Employee Assistance and Worksite HealthPromotion Programs

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Costing the Effects of Employee Assistance and
Worksite Health-Promotion Programs

• Chapter 5
• Presented By Lorie Sager
• Course Selection Evaluation

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Interesting Stats (pg 109)

• Substance Abuse and mental illness cost US
  companies over 100 billion per year in lost
  time, accidents, health care, and workers
  compensation costs.
• Sixty-five percent of all accidents on the job
  are directly related to drugs or alcohol.
• Substance abusers are six times more likely than
  are their co-workers to file a workers
  compensation claim.

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Did You Know?

• Nearly 4 million women suffer from domestic abuse
  each year.
• Victims of domestic abuse miss 175,000 days of
  paid work annually.
• Domestic abuse costs employers 3-5 billion a
  year in absenteeism, reduced productivity, and
  increased health-care expenditures(Woodward 1998).

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EAPS

• Forces Behind EAPs
• Characteristics
• Costs General Benefits

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Worksite Health-Promotion Programs

• Theory
• Strategy
• Disadvantages
• Advantages
• Costs

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