Health Risk Assessment
Why Employers Care
Health risk assessments (HRAs), provide employees/retirees/dependents with individualized feedback about health risks and recommendations for reducing those risks and improving health. An increasing number of multinational employers are offering HRAs for their employees outside the US.1
HRAs combined with follow-up interventions, have produced strong evidence for improving one or more health conditions. Early identification of health risks can help protect overall health and prevent adverse health outcomes and associated productivity losses.
What Employers Can Do
When HRAs that are translated and culturally validated are available in a target country, employers should consider offering these tools to employees to identify specific risk factors and guide the implementation of appropriate interventions (e.g., information, support, coaching, self-management, referral, etc.) to improve/ maintain health. In some countries, intervention and prevention programs are limited in number and/or quality. Employers will want to consider the availability of needed programs as part of the HRA implementation strategy.
Global Health Benefits Institute Resources
1 Employers' Experiences with Health Risk Assessments in International Markets, Global Health Benefits Institute, Culturally Valid Tools Project Team, March 2008. 
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