The Regional Municipality of York introduced its strategic wellness program, in partnership with Sun Life Financial’s Health and Wellness team, in response to information garnered from staff in the region’s first Employee Satisfaction Survey in 2006. The goal was to achieve a culture of wellness with high-impact results.
Tough economic headwinds, rising rates of chronic illness and spiralling healthcare costs make maintaining a healthy workforce more critical to business success now than ever before.
The current state of healthcare in Canada is riddled with challenges: the population is aging rapidly; there is an increase in obesity, diabetes and heart disease; and healthcare costs are soaring. In late 2010, Sun Life Financial launched the Canadian Health Index, a landmark study conducted by Ipsos Reid. A nationally representative sample of 4,000 […]