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- Title
Collaborative Employee Wellness: Living Healthy With Diabetes.
- Authors
McGarvey Hovatter, Joan; Cooke, Catherine E.; Rodriguez de Bittner, Magaly
- Abstract
Innovative approaches to managing an employee population with a high prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus can mitigate costs for employers by improving employees' health. This article describes such an approach at McCormick & Company, Inc., where participants had statistically significant improvements in weight, average plasma glucose concentration (also called glycated hemoglobin or A1c) and cholesterol. A simulation analysis applying the findings of the study population to Maryland employees with a baseline A1c of greater than 6.0% showed that participation in the program could improve glycemic control in these patients, reducing the A1c by 0.24% on average, with associated cost savings for the employer.
- Subjects
EMPLOYEE health promotion; INDUSTRIAL hygiene; TYPE 2 diabetes; GLYCOSYLATED hemoglobin; MCCORMICK &; Co. Inc.; EMPLOYEE participation in management; GLYCEMIC control; EMPLOYER-sponsored health insurance costs
- Publication
Benefits Quarterly, 2016, Vol 32, Issue 3, p41
- ISSN
8756-1263
- Publication type
Article