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The costs of obesity in the workplace


The Hidden Career Cost of Being Overweight - YouTube

Studies show that heavier people are paid and promoted less than their thinner colleagues. Wall Street Journal reporter Ray A. Smith joins ...

The Cost of Obesity: a Higher Price for Women—and Not Just in ...

This study also found that there is an added cost for being overweight (BMI of 25 to 29.9), although not as high as for being obese. It costs an overweight ...

Excess Costs for Obese Employees Vary Between Indu | Newswise

Although obese employees incur higher direct and indirect costs, the extent of obesity-related costs tends to be lower in some industrial ...

The Rising Cost of Obesity on the Federal Workers' Comp System

Studies have shown that overweight and obese workers are more prone to workplace accidents then their slimmer counterparts and that their injuries take ...

How Have Costs Associated With Obesity Changed Over Time? - KFF

This analysis finds that, among people with large employer health plans, those with an obesity diagnosis on average have higher total and ...

CDC's Obesity Cost Calculator - Caravus

Workplace obesity prevention programs can be an effective way for employers to reduce obesity and lower their health care costs, ...

The Cost of Obesity: Economic, Social, and Mental Price - GoodRx

Another study found that average annual medical care costs for adults with obesity was $2,505. This is more than twice what adults who are ...

An Employer's Practical Playbook for Treating Obesity

Higher BMI is associated with increased medical expenditures; one study found $1,800 in excess annual medical costs for individuals with obesity and another ...

Overall Costs of Obesity (PDF) - University of Vermont

Indirect costs are personal and employer incurred expenses that affect workplace productivity such as absenteeism and presenteeism. Other miscellaneous indirect ...

The Financial Burden of Obesity: Why Employers Must Act Now

The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine found that obesity costs employers an average of $506 per obese employee each year in ...

Weighing the costs of obesity: a brief review of the health care ...

Workplace Costs of Obesity. Obesity-related costs have become a major concern for employers [7]. Based on self-report data available in 2005, approximately ...

Obesity: Supersizing Workers' Compensation Costs

Studies show that morbidly obese workers – anyone with a BMI of 40 or above – file twice as many workers' compensation claims than their non-obese co-workers.

Benefits of a leaner workforce: Costs of obesity to health and economy

In addition to the impact on individual health and increased business costs due to time off work through associated illnesses, obese people ...

Obesity-attributable absenteeism among US wor - EurekAlert!

November 21, 2014 -- A study conducted by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health shows that obesity costs the ...

Health Study Says Obese Employees Incur Higher Costs

Costs are absorbed by all employees, who end up paying higher health-care premiums; by employers, if they must hire replacement workers or pick ...

Direct medical costs of obesity in the United States and the most ...

RESULTS: Adults with obesity in the United States compared with those with normal weight experienced higher annual medical care costs by $2,505 ...

The annual social cost of obesity in the UK | Frontier Economics

A 10% reduction in obesity prevalence could lead to significant cost savings, not only to the NHS but also in terms of improved quality of life and workplace ...

The Not-So-Hidden Cost of Obesity - Workers Comp Insider

NCCI has published an interesting study on the relationship between obesity and the cost of workers compensation claims.

Obesity in the Workplace: What Employers Can Do Differently

1 Studies show that the high rate of obesity affects the workplace through higher health-care costs and lost productivity, strengthening the ...

The association between employee obesity and employer costs

Conclusion. Obesity is associated with large employer costs from direct health care and insurance claims and indirect costs from lost productivity owing to ...