Work-Site Health Promotion
- 1 November 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- Vol. 27 (11), 826-830
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00043764-198511000-00016
Abstract
Participants in work-site health promotion programs are compared with other employees at the same work-site in terms of health care utilization as measured by insurance claims. Participants tended to incur higher health care costs than nonparlicipants for the six-month period after the program began. However, a cohort analysis of one of the groups shows that participants’ costs declined in relation to nonparticipants’ for subsequent periods. Overall, for 4.75 years after the program, participants averaged 24% lower health care costs than nonparticipants. The imputed savings in health care costs exceeds program costs for this cohort by a factor of 1.45. The findings substantially strengthen the conclusions of other controlled studies that work-site health promotion reduces health care costs.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Reduced Disability and Health Care Costs in an Industrial Fitness ProgramJournal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1984