No-Cost Excess Weight Tool to Support Employer Efforts in Quantifying the Cost of Obesity to Your Organization

The Excess Weight Tool is a no-cost resource created with input from experts at Duke University. The tool helps employers understand where and how much obesity may be costing them. Key elements of the tool:

• Applies national data to estimate the prevalence of excess weight within an organization’s population.
• Reviews the comorbid risks of 15 diseases and conditions associated with excess weight and the costs related to treatment of these comorbidities, providing a treatment cost summary.
• Shows how excess weight increases the incidence of – and costs related to – workers’ compensation and short-term disability.
• Provides an estimate of losses in productivity due to excess weight by incorporating measures such as absenteeism and missed days of work.
• Reviews how weight affects the general well-being of individuals.