Coping with chronic disease

Employers can tackle costs, incidence of illness through several approaches

Coping with chronic disease
More than half of the Canadian workforce is living with at least one chronic medical condition, according to the 2016 Sanofi Canada Healthcare Survey. Credit: Denys Prykhodov (Shutterstock)

It’s a shocking stat — more than half of the Canadian workforce is living with at least one chronic medical condition, according to the 2016 Sanofi Canada Healthcare Survey. These long-term, often slow-progressing conditions, some physical and some psychological, can have serious consequences on employee health, and pronounced impacts on workplace productivity and benefit plan costs.

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