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Organizational Initiatives to Enhance Employee Well-Being Preventing/Reducing the Onset of Non-Communicable Diseases in the Workplace
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This paper discusses a system of preventing/reducing the onset of NCDs in communities of employees across different world class companies in India. The system comprises a description of indicators which endeavor to measure the extent of health care initiatives, in the area of NCDs, practiced by these organizations. These are the Input indicators. The system also includes output indicators to assess the effectiveness of the initiatives.
Analyzing the data obtained from 12 companies, with the help of a questionnaire, the research comes up with the finding that the linkages between Input Indicators and Output Indicators are mostly statistically significant, valid at 10% level of significance in some cases and 17% significance in other cases.
Also, the trend analysis on output indicators over last two years shows substantial improvement.
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