Financial Impact of Worksite Health Management Programs and Quality of the Evidence

Lifestyle Medicine, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1325-1336

  Serxner, Seth ^a   Gold, Daniel ^b   Parker, Kristin ^c  

^a OPTUM   (United States)

^b Mercer   (United States)

^c Mercer Consulting   (United States)

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