The financial impact of changes in personal health practices

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1037-1046

  Edington, Dee W ^a   Yen, Louis Tze Ching ^a   Witting, Pamela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Molson Coors Brewing Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COST ALLOCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REPORTING; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030658975     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-199711000-00004     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Public Health Service. Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives. [DHHS Publication No. (PHS) 91-50213.] Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services; 1991.
2. US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service. 1992 National survey of worksite health promotion activities: summary. Am J Health Promot. 1993;7:452-464.
3. Fielding JE. Worksite health promotion programs in the United States: progress, lessons and challenges. Health Promot Int. 1990;5:75-84.
4. National Center for Health Statistics. Health, United States, 1992 and Healthy People 2000 Review. [DHHS Publication No. (PHS) 93-1232.] Hyattsville, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services; 1993.
5. Henritze J, Brammell HL, McGloin J. LIFECHECK: a successful low touch, low tech, in-plant, cardiovascular disease risk identification and modification program. Am J Health Promot. 1992;7:129-136.
6. Fries JF, Fries ST, Parcell CL, Harrington H. Health risk changes with a low-cost individualized health promotion program: effects at up to 30 months. Am J Health Promot. 1992;6:364-371.
7. Aldana SG, Jacobson BH, Harris CJ, Kelly PL. Mobile work site health promotion programs can reduce selected employee health risks. J Occup Med. 1993; 35:922-928.
8. Gomel M, Oldenburg B, Simpson JM, Owen N. Work-site cardiovascular risk reduction: a randomized trial of health risk assessment, education, counseling, and incentives. Am J Public Health. 1993;83:1231-1238.
9. Bertera RL. Behavioral risk factor and illness day changes with workplace health promotion: two-year results. Am J Health Promot. 1993;7:365-373.
10. Emont S, Zahniser S, Marcus S, et al. Evaluation of the 1990 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention smoke-free policy. Am J Health Promot. 1995;9: 456-461.
11. Goetzel R, Sepulveda M, Knight K, et al. Association of IBM's "A Plan for Life" health promotion program with changes in employees' health risk status. J Occup Med. 1994;36:1005-1009.
12. Holt M, McCauley M, Paul D. Health impacts of AT&T's Total Life Concept program after five years. Am J Health Promot. 1995;9:421-425.
13. Fries J, Bloch D, Harrington H, Richardson N, Beck R. Two-year results of a randomized controlled trial of a health promotion program in a retiree population: the Bank of America study. Am J Med. 1993;94:455-462.
14. Bertera RL. Behavioral risk factor and illness day changes with worksite health promotion: two-year results. Am J Health Promot. 1993;7:365-373.
15. Minkler M. Health education, health promotion and the open society: an historical perspective. Health Edu Q. 1989;16:17-30.
16. Stokols D. Establishing and maintaining healthy environments: toward a social ecology of health promotion. Am Psychol. 1992;47:6-22.
17. Ribisl KM, Reischl TM. Measuring the climate for health at organizations: development of the worksite health climate scales. J Occup Med. 1993;35:812-824.
18. Edington DW, Yen L. Is it possible to simultaneously reduce risk factors and excess health care costs? Am J Health Promot. 1992;6:403-409.
19. Feingold E. Health care reform: more than cost containment and universal access. Am J Public Health. 1994;84:727-728.
20. Espinola SA. Shhh. . . Healthcare reform is here. Benefits Compensation Solutions. 1995;17:29-32.
21. Vickery DM. Toward appropriate use of medical care. Healthcare Forum J. 1996; 39:14-19.
22. Scofield M. Demand management in health care. Benefits Compensation Solutions. 1996;18:46-48.
23. Pelletier KR. A review and analysis of the health and cost-effective outcome studies of comprehensive health promotion and disease prevention programs at the worksite: 1991-1993 update. Am J Health Promot. 1993;8:50-62.
24. Yen L, Edington DW, Witting P. Associations between health risk appraisal scores and employee medical claims costs in a manufacturing company. Am J Health Promot. 1991;6:46-54.
25. Yen L, Edington DW, Witting P. Prediction of prospective medical claims and absenteeism costs for 1284 hourly workers from a manufacturing company. J Occup Med. 1992;34:428-435.
26. Yen L, Edington DW, Witting P. Corporate medical claims cost distributions and factors associated with high-cost status. J Occup Med. 1994;36:505-515.
27. Golaszewski T, Lynch W, Clearie A, Vickery D. The relationship between retrospective health insurance claims and a health risk appraisal-generated measure of health status. J Occup Med. 1989;31: 262-264.
28. Bly JL, Jones RC, Richardson JE. Impact of worksite health promotion on health care costs and utilization: evaluation of Johnson & Johnson's Live for Life program. JAMA. 1986;256:3235-3240.
29. Penner M, Penner S. Excess insured health care costs from tobacco-using employees in a large group plan. J Occup Med. 1990;32:521-523.
30. Keeler EB, Manning WG, Newhouse JP, Sloss EM, Wasserman J. The external costs of a sedentary life-style. Am J Public Health. 1989;79:975-981.
31. Oster G, Epstein A. Primary prevention and coronary heart disease: the economic benefits of lowering serum cholesterol. Am J Public Health. 1986;76:647-656.
32. Oster G, Colditz G, Kelly N. The economic costs of smoking and benefits of quitting for individual smokers. Prev Med. 1984;13:377-389.
33. Lynch WD, Gilfillan LA, Jennett C, McGloin J. Health risks and health insurance claims costs: results for health hazard appraisal responders and non responders. J Occup Med. 1993;35:28-33.
34. Harvey MR, Whitmer RW, Hilyer JC, Brow KC. The impact of a comprehensive medical benefit cost management program for the city of Birmingham: results at five years. Am J Health Promot. 1993;7:296-303.
35. Foote A, Erfurt JC. The benefit to cost ratio of work-site blood pressure control programs. JAMA. 1991;265:1283-1286.
36. Golaszewski T, Snow D, Lynch W, Yen L, Solomita D. A benefit-to-cost analysis of a work-site health promotion program. J Occup Med. 1992;34:1164-1172.
37. Shephard RJ. A critical analysis of work-site fitness programs and their postulated economic benefits. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 1992;24:354-370.
38. Fries JF, Harrington H, Edward R, Kent LA, Richardson N. Randomized controlled trial of cost reductions from a health education program: the California public employees' retirement system (PERS) study. Am J Health Promot. 1994;8:216-223.
39. Messer J, Stone W. Worksite fitness and health promotion benefit-cost analysis: a tutorial, review of literature, and assessment of the state of the art. Worksite Health. 1995;2:34-43.
40. Gramlich EM. Benefit-Cost Analysis of Government Programs. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall; 1981.
41. Vincenzino JV. Developments in medical care costs: an update. Stat Bull. 1993;74: 29-35.
42. Kahn HA, Sempos CT. Statistical Methods in Epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press; 1989.
43. Fox DJ, Guire KE. Documentation for MIDAS. Ann Arbor: Statistical Research Laboratory, The University of Michigan; 1976.
44. Last JM. A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press; 1988.
45. Institute for Social Research. OSIRIS IV: Statistical Analysis and Data Management System. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan; 1981.
46. Brigham J, Gross J, Stitzer ML, Felch LJ. Effects of a restricted work-site smoking policy on employees who smoke. Am J Public Health. 1994;84:773-778.
47. Conrad, P. Who comes to work-site wellness programs? A preliminary review. J Occup Med. 1987;29:317-320.