Control- by providing incentives or disincentives to complete health risk assessments; it allows the employee to be segmented into a "category" for additional "wellness management".
Wellness management is better know as diabetes programs, asthma programs, obesity programs and such. They are designed to monitor, manage a Disease.
Why not call these programs what they are: Disease Management Programs?
What is true wellness is a total review of the policy and procedures in which a company operates. What are the work hours, quality of work environment, access to nutritional food, access to fitness, access to high quality non toxic products and programs around wellness topics. If you treat the workforce and promote a "wellness" philosophy from the top down; you'll have better adoption of "disease programs" since employees won't feel like it's simply another invasive control program. Check out this recent article on this topic and see a poor example of control by Aetna in handling obesity; quite disgusting!
http://www.healthcarepayernews.com/content/wellness-skeptics-cite-employee-coercion-over-empowerment
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