2007/2008 workplace pilot program results toronto police service supported by sanofi-aventis 1 june...

2007/2008 Workplace Pilot Program ResultsToronto Police Service

Supported by sanofi-aventis

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June 2009

•sanofi-aventis

•Connex Health

•Toronto Police

•Database development

•Health screening clinics (initial and rescreening at 6 months)

•Physician referrals

•Healthy lifestyle programs

•Communication

•Awareness of cardiometabolic health risks

•Prevention, detection and management

•Healthier employees

Spring 2007 through March 2008

Winter 2006-07

Number of Participants◦ Initial clinics – 510 participants, 49% of full attendance◦ Follow-up clinics – 171 participants

Participants with ‘unhealthy’ results referred to their physician

Initial clinic results: >52% of participants referred Follow-up results: 49% referred visited their physician

within 6 months of initial clinics New diagnosis: 26

◦ High cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity Prescriptions: 17

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Results Program Impact on

Heart Disease Risk (Framingham Risk Assessment):

• Number of participants with the lowest risk (0-2% risk category) increased by 13.5%

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Results Program Impact on

CM Risk Factors:

• Number of participants with 0 or 1 risk factor improved by 23%

• Number of participants with 4 or more risk factors decreased by 39%

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ResultsNote: Coronary Heart

disease decrease by approximately 40% for every mmol/L reduction in LDL.

Impact of Program on LDL:

• The LDL value with the greatest number of participants (peak in graph) improved from 3-3.49 mmol/L to 2.5-2.99 mmol/L

• The number of participants with and LDL value of 2.49 mmol/L or less improved by 25%

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Results Impact of Program on

TC: HDL Cholesterol:

• The number of participants with a TC:HDL result ‘within target’ (healthy) improved by 20%

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Results Program Impact on

Waist Circumference:

• The number of people with a ‘healthy’ waist circumference increased by 18%

• The number of people with an ‘unhealthy’ waist circumference decreased by 12%

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ResultsImpact of the program on eating habits:

•Improvements in the number of people who reported that they ‘always’ meet the recommended daily servings of following:•Grains + 13.7%• Fruits & Vegetables

+42%• Dairy +40%• Whole Grains + 38%• Fish +55%

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Screening can be delivered in a shift work environment in challenging locations

Advance planning, and communication is essential

Senior management SupervisorsEmployees

Be flexible – clinics and programming

Results can be tracked – MEASURE IT

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Ongoing cardio metabolic screening

Annual focus on one aspect of metabolic health across Service – 2009 blood pressure

Full time physical fitness wellness coordinator

New physical activity education and programming

Release of employer kit for cardio metabolic screening and evaluation

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Denise Balch

905 637 2775 x224

denisebalch@connexhc.com