The real healthcare crisis
is the stress-impacted employee
Government reports reveal that corporations spend an average of $7,500 per employee – over $300 billion in costs annually for reduced productivity, absenteeism, employee turnover, stress-related compensation claims, health insurance costs and direct medical costs. *

In 1976 medical researchers at Cornell Medical College called stress the number one social and medical disease in the country. Today, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health reports that healthcare expenses are nearly 50% greater for workers with high levels of stress.


  

 

 
The relationship between stress
and disease is clear:
85 - 90% of the symptoms presented to a physician have no organic basis…the vast majority of presenting problems at the doctor’s office are stress-reactions.
90 - 95% of all hypertension (high blood pressure) is called essential hypertension because there is no known physical cause for the high blood pressure. It is a stress reaction in the vascular system.
Over 60 million workdays are lost every year because of head pain. Most headaches are caused by tension.
Depression, insomnia, chronic indigestion and more are significant stress problems linked to disease.
* Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
 
 

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