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Why should brokers participate?

Why should brokers encourage their clients to sign up for the Challenge?

What are the tools of the Challenge?

What is the cost of participating in the Challenge?


Why Should Brokers Participate?

As health insurance underwriters, your employer groups are directly affected by the increasing, unhealthy smoking and obesity epidemics. NC Prevention Partners can help your employers reduce their health care costs.

The Prevention 1st Challenge provides a set of on-line strategic tools and resources that businesses can use to improve employee health and reduce healthcare costs by creating and maintaining policies and environments that support healthy eating, physical activity, and quitting tobacco use.

Every year, medical care and lost productivity from obesity, poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and tobacco use cost employers an average of $6000 per employee.


Read Healthy Employees Create Healthy Businesses: A Guide to Help Employers Reduce Health Care Costs to learn more about the importance of employee health and reducing healthcare costs.

Why should brokers encourage their clients to sign up for the Challenge?

  • Employee participation in the Challenge provides employers with information about which behaviors—physical activity, nutrition, and / or tobacco use—their employees are most interested in working on. This information can help businesses tailor worksite wellness programs.


  • By encouraging employees to sign up for the Challenge, employers can help employees to make similar changes at home. Supportive environments at both work and at home can help individual employees change their behaviors.



    • Tools of the Challenge

    The primary tools of the Prevention 1st Challenge include:
  • Prevention Audit: This tool enables a business to assess its existing nutrition, physical activity, and tobacco use policies and environments. Access to the audit at four intervals throughout a 12-month period allows businesses to evaluate their progress.


  • Prevention Report Card: The Prevention Audit results in a Prevention Report Card with grades in physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco use that reflect the business’ responses on the audit. These tools enable your business to obtain immediate feedback on existing prevention policies and environments and to establish a prevention baseline. (Learn more about grades.)


  • Prevention Plan Guides, Quick Start Steps, & Progress Check Guides: The Prevention Plan Guide, Quick Start Steps, and Progress Check Guides provide guidance and resources for businesses to create and evaluate a strategic plan to improve their Prevention Report Card grades and to support employee health.


    • In addition, participating businesses will receive

  • Email prompts at 4-month intervals reminding business to complete the next Prevention Audit.
  • An end-of-year final report showing the percent of employees that participated, an aggregate report of health goals selected by employees, and a grades summary from the four Prevention Report Cards.


    • What is the cost of participating in the Challenge?

  • Fee Schedule for Non-Member Businesses

    • 1 to 99 employees = $100
    100 to 499 employees = $200
    500 or more employees = $300

  • Member Businesses have access to the Challenge as a benefit of membership.
    Benefits of Membership
    Membership Form

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    Let's rise to the Challenge and put prevention first!

    © 2005 NC Prevention Partners

      News Articles
     
    "Seeking Savings, Employers Help Smokers Quit"
    New York Times

    "Financial Incentives Help Employees Lose Weight, Study Finds"
    RTI International

    "Employee Health & Productivity Management Programs: The Use of Incentives"
    A Survey of U.S. Employers

    "Worksites Need to Know How to Get Started"
    NC Medical Journal

    "Obesity and Workers' Compensation" Article in
    Archives of Internal Medicine

    National Business Group on Health & the CDC Release:
    A Purchaser's Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: Moving Science into Coverage