Workplace Wellness

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Links!
• A Review of the U.S. Workplace Wellness Market (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5052082)
• "Wellness" Based Healthcare is a Scam (nationalnursesunited.org/news/our-perspective-…)
• 2013 Rand Report (rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_report…)
• Workplace Wellness Produces No Savings (healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/forefront.2014112…)\
• Workplace Wellbeing Is a Scam (tribunemag.co.uk/2021/05/workplace-wellbeing-i…)
• Employers should disband employee weight control programs (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25880492)
• Using Incentives in Workplace Wellness Programs (scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic…)
• Coerced into Health (scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar…)
• Current Trends in Reducing Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the US (sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S003…)
• The effectiveness of worksite nutrition and physical activity interventions for controlling employee overweight (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19765507)
• Managing Manifest Diseases, But Not Health Risks, Saved PepsiCo Money Over Seven Years (content.healthaffairs.org/content/33/1/124.ful…)
• The Dubious Empirical and Legal Foundations of Workplace Wellness Programs (scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/healthmatrix?utm…)
• Toward A Critical Theory of Corporate Wellness (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=30…)
• The development and growth of employer-provided health insurance (bls.gov/opub/mlr/1994/03/art1full.pdf)
• The Ideological Construction Of Risk (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3127894)
• Wellness Incentives In The Workplace (healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2012.068…)
• A Fatter Butt Equals a Skinnier Wallet (scholarship.law.uwyo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a…)
• The Outcomes, Economics, and Ethics of the Workplace Wellness Industry (scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.…)
• What’s Bad about Wellness? (read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article-abstract/39/…)
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