Which of the following falls under the cost burden of obesity and subsequent diseases -
Answers heart disease
An employee who is addicted to nicotine and is a smoker could avoid penalties if they complete
with of the following - Answers A smoking cessation program
Wellness rules require that all employees are covered under the same employer-sponsored
health plan regardless of lifestyle choices - Answers true
Employers who ban unhealthy behaviors require employees to disclose smoking, weight, and
treatment adherence status. - Answers true
can be caused by smoking and obesity - Answers arthritis
$289 to $1.2 trillion is spent on diseases related to this every year - Answers smoking
The united states has some of the most of this in comparison to the rest of the world - Answers
obesity
This chronic disease can be avoided with weight management - Answers diabetes
Community rating based on one employee's costly medical condition - Answers geographic
rating
health insurance costs would have continued to be based on claims for employers without this -
Answers Health Care reform
This program limits the extent to which the health insurance industry can impose premium
surcharges on small employers - Answers ACA
Traditionally regulated by the states with a lot of variation prior to the ACA - Answers Risk
Classification
Studies show these individuals believe employees should be responsible for their own health -
Answers employers
This gets in the way of employers intruding into the health of employees - Answers reliance
These individuals will cost more in employer-provided health insurance programs - Answers
Employees with unhealthy lives
This thought about health care insurance by employers may result in employees leading a
healthier life - Answers Middle approach
Every year 40 percent more of premature deaths are related to ____ behaviors - Answers
unhealthy
, Health _________ is what makes an employee healthy or unhealthy. - Answers status
The _____ of health insurance for employers ultimately relates to how expensive the ______
needs of the employees are. - Answers cost and medical
More than 40% of premature deaths in the US result from unintentional injuries such as car
accidents - Answers false
medical treatments affect only ____% of individuals' health status - Answers 10
_____ tailors medications and other treatments to individual needs - Answers prospective
medicine
The US ranks _____ in life expectancy - Answers 42nd
One of the following is different:
smoking
obesity
diabetes and treatment adherence
unintentional injuries - Answers unintentional injuries
(All others are primary leading factors raising health care costs for employers)
despite widespread awareness and acceptance of the risks of smoking, 1 in ____ Americans still
smoke - Answers 6
the effects of being overweight are comparable to having diabetes or high blood pressure -
Answers True
Given: Weight =73 kg/161 lbs, height= 165 cm/5'5", what is the BMI? - Answers 26.8
(73/1.65msquared)
The term "obesity and with it diabetes" indicates the mutually exclusive association between the
two - Answers false
(mutally excluive meaning totally independent, whereas these two are related)
Due to high cost, employers are introducing lifestyle discrimination policies against the
following except
smoking