Preventive Screenings

Promote social support interventions and/or health education activities in your small business by holding preventive wellness screenings for things like blood pressure, body composition, blood cholesterol, and diabetes.

Health screenings help identify risk of serious illness. Preventive wellness screenings provide measurements or evaluations of certain indicators of health that indicate a person’s degree of risk for specific diseases. Many preventable diseases and the indicators of health are interrelated. For example, an individual with excess body fat is also at risk for high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.

Inconvenience and cost are barriers that often prevent people from getting routine health screenings. When offered at work, these screenings are very convenient and cost-effective. Early identification of risk can often prevent the development of more serious health issues. When serious risk is identified, early intervention will lead to better outcomes.

Small Biz Action Steps

• Offer health screenings as part of a health fair.

• Host periodic screening events as an alternative to full health fairs.

• Host a Health Fair or encourage employees to attend a Health Fair in their 
community.

• Offer different wellness screenings each month along with an educational 
program on that specific topic. This allows people to focus on different topics and reinforces wellness and prevention throughout the year. For 
 example, during February, American Heart Month, offer cholesterol and blood pressure screenings.

• Many companies pay for part or all of the screenings for their employees. 
Other companies do not have this option, but can still offer convenient, 
lower-cost worksite screenings. Screening/wellness companies should be 
able to offer reasonable rates for their services on a cash (no insurance) 
basis.

Related Wellness Resources

• Employee Health & Wellness Interest Survey – Conduct an employee interest survey to collect information on the topics that would be of most interest to staff and to determine the best time of day for health education seminars.

• Wellness Program & Event Promotion Materials – Promote the seminars through all marketing media available such as e-mail, flyers, and meeting announcements.

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You CAN control healthcare costs for you and your employees with practical and affordable wellness tools and strategies that will ultimately help them create a lifetime of healthy habits. For more information on any our small business wellness programs or services, Contact Us today and find out we can help.