Health and wellbeing programmes reduce hospital admissions - research

The retrospective study over five years of more than 300,000 participants showed active members had decreased hospitalisations and claims costs. An independent five-year study conducted on behalf of PruHealth's South Africa-based parent company, Discovery Health, is one of the first to demonstrate a strong correlation between member engagement in incentivised health programmes and subsequent low hospital admissions. It examined the gym visits and participation in fitness activities of over 300,000 Discovery members in South Africa over a three year period and the probability of hospit...