Estimating the global economic benefits of physically active populations over 30 years (2020-2050).

Objectives: We assess the potential benefits of increased physical activity for the global economy for 23 countries and the rest of the world from 2020 to 2050. The main factors taken into account in the economic assessment are excess mortality and lower productivity.

Methods: This study links three methodologies.

Health-care spending attributable to modifiable risk factors in the USA: an economic attribution analysis.

Background: There is a robust understanding of how specific behavioural, metabolic, and environmental risk factors increase the risk of health burden. However, there is less understanding of how these risks individually and jointly affect health-care spending. The objective of this study was to quantify health-care spending attributable to modifiable risk factors in the USA for 2016.

Individual, Workplace, and Combined Effects Modeling of Employee Productivity Loss.

Objective: Systematically and simultaneously investigate a wide range of influences on workplace productivity loss.

Methods: Data were collected from 31,950 employees in the UK. Influences of employees' socioeconomic characteristics, lifestyle, commuting, physical and mental health, well-being, and job and workplace environment were assessed using structural equation models, allowing systematic decomposition of the complex network of influences and creating new, deeper insights.

Medical care savings from workplace wellness programs: what is a realistic savings potential?

Background: : Workplace wellness programs have become increasingly popular despite large inconsistencies in the analyses of their ability to produce long-term medical care savings.

Objective: : To clarify the aforesaid situation by estimating potential long-term medical care savings linked to chronic disease.

Methods: : We combined data from the Global Burden of Disease Study and Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys to estimate the annual savings that would result from lowering risk factors typically managed by workplace wellness programs to their theoretical minimums.

Promoting prevention through the affordable care act: workplace wellness.

Public health in the United States can be improved by building workplace "cultures of health" that support healthy lifestyles. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), which includes the Prevention and Public Health Fund, will support a new focus on prevention and wellness, offering opportunities to strengthen the public's health through workplace wellness initiatives. This article describes the opportunity the ACA provides to improve worker wellness.