Should a typical diabetic employees be incentivized to get his or her Hba1c down to 7?
Should copays on strips be waived to encourage diabetic employees to test their blood sugar every day?
Read this issue of Wellness News Roundup for the surprising new research.
Also in this issue: this will come as a big shock but it turns out — get ready — employees are not health literate.
They Said What? 
The fact that employees are not health literate should be a huge red flag for employer based wellness programs. There is absolutely no reason why every worksite wellness program cannot have an Awareness Building component within the program that includes addressing health and mental health literacy, for starters, as part of the component.
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Couldn’t agree more, my friend…
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This specific study is actually about insurance benefit health literacy. People don’t understand the meaning of the key terms in their insurance plans.
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