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Presidential Cancer Panel Calls For Employer Commitment Employers, medical insurers, and health care providers can help reduce the rates of cancer and other serious illnesses among workers by offering preventive care and wellness programs designed to promote good health behaviors, the newly released annual report by the President’s Cancer Panel concluded. The report warned that cancer treatment costs and produtivity losses will continue to escalate unless organizations, institutions, and individuals do more to address factors known to affect cancer risk, especially obesity, poor diet, lack of physical activity, and smoking. Benefit Cost Increases Outpaced Wage Inflation In Second Quarter Total compensation costs for U.S. civilian workers rose 0.9% between March and June 2007, with benefit costs climbing 1.3% and wages and salaries increasing 0.8%, according to the most recent Employment Cost Index report released by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). Women More Positive About Employers' Work/Life Balance Programs The perception among women of employers’ efforts to help workers balance their personal and professional lives tends to be more positive than that of men, with the gender gap being especially large among employees of smaller and moderately large companies, according to a study published by human resources consultancy Kenexa Corporation. Health Care Among Top Issues For Independent Voters As the 2008 presidential election approaches, Americans who are not aligned with either the Democrats or the Republicans are increasingly citing health care as one of the leading issues likely to influence their voting decisions, according to a report published by the Kaiser Family Foundation. |
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