August 2011

Affiliated Physicians

Flu Planning Webinar August 17th 

 

Flu season is quickly approaching and companies across the country are starting to take a look at offering on-site flu vaccinations to protect their employees.

 

If you are one of these companies, join Affiliated Physicians on Wednesday, August 17th between 2 - 2:30 EDT for our webinar, Planning a Successful Flu Vaccination Program. The webinar will discuss what your company needs to know as you prepare for the 2011-12 flu vaccination season.

 

Key topics will include:

  • A quick recap of the 2010/11 flu season
  • Planning for the 2011/12 flu season
  • The importance of internal communications
  • Gaining leadership buy-in
  • The use of awards and incentives
  • Account management and program planning
  • Selecting a corporate flu vaccination vendor  

For complete details and to RSVP for this webinar, please click here. 

  

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Did You Know...Seasonal Flu?

With so many common misconceptions circulating about the seasonal flu, we thought we would share some important facts with you.

Did you know that... 
  • On average, over 200,000 hospitalizations occur annually due to the flu?
  • Each year between 5 and 20 percent of the population gets the flu?  
  • The flu costs businesses approximately $10.4 billion in direct costs each year?
  • The influenza virus can be spread among healthy adults beginning 1 day before symptoms develop and up to 5 to 7 days after becoming sick? 

Protect your company and its employees this flu season by investing in an on-site seasonal flu vaccination program. 

 

To learn more or to schedule a program online, please click here. If you have questions or would like further information regarding on-site flu vaccinations, please contact Marilyn Texidor at (877) 292.5546, ext. 101 or email mtexidor@affiliatedphysicians.net.  

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The Topic of Obesity

by Dr. Nemetz     

   

Dr. Nemetz is the Medical Director of Affiliated Physicians and he is here to share valuable health information. The article that follows is from his July newsletter.  


Obesity, Part 1

I don't want to offend people. I'm sitting here wrestling with the idea of how to approach, from a medical standpoint, the subject of obesity. Americans as a group are definitely too fat. We know who we are.

 

How did this happen?

The Surgeon General's current report on obesity is a clarion call to think of our problem as seriously as a previous generation began to heed the original 1964 Surgeon General's report on the health hazards of smoking cigarettes. Our collective too-fatness must be thought of in the same category. Smoking peaked in the United States in the mid-1960s, when 42% of adults were smokers. That rate has dropped to about 20% today, and it's falling. We need to find a way to achieve a similar improvement in our obesity rates.


Click here for the complete article.

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