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Investing in Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion
Companion Piece #1
"COSTS OF DOING NOTHING"
(a list of references)
January, 2001
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'COSTS OF DOING NOTHING'
REFERENCES
January 3, 2001
Note: Key articles are in bold type.
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Berndt, E.R.; Bailit, H.L.; Keller, M.B.; Verner, J.C. and Finkelstein, S.N. (2000). Health care use and at-work productivity among employees with mental disorders. Health Affairs, 19 (4), 244-256.
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Burton, Wayne N.; Conti, Daniel J.; Chen, Chin-Yu; Schultz, Alyssa B. and Edington, Dee W. (1999). The role of health risk factors and disease on worker productivity. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 41 (10), 863-877.
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Crystal-Peters, J.; Crown, W.H.; Goetzel, R.Z. and Schutt, D.C. (2000). The cost of productivity losses associated with allergic rhinitis. American Journal of Managed Care, 6 (3), 373-378.
Dewa, C.S. and Lin, E. (2000). Chronic physical illness, psychiatric disorder and disability in the workplace. Social Science & Medicine, 51 (1), 41-50.
Druss, Benjamin G.; Rosenheck, Robert A. and Sledge, William H. (2000). Health and disability costs of depressive illness in a major U.S. corporation. American Journal of Psychiatry, 157 (8), 1274-1278.
Eddy, James M.; Fitzhugh, Eugene C.; Wojtowicz, G. Greg and Wang, Min Qi. (1997). The impact of worksite-based safety belt programs: a review of the literature. American Journal of Health Promotion, 11 (4), 281-289.
Edington, Dee W.; Yen, Louis Tze-ching and Witting, Pamela (1997). The financial impact of changes in personal health practices. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 39 (11), 1037-1046.
Garske, G.G.; Williams, B.T. and Schiro-Geist, C. (1999). The financial costs of severe mental illness. Journal of Rehabilitation, 65 (4), 39-44.
Glasgow, R.E.; Wagner, E.H.; Kaplan, R.M.; Vinicor, F.; Smith, L. and Norman, J. (1999). If diabetes is a public health problem, why not treat it as one? A population-based approach to chronic illness. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 21 (2), 159-170.
Goetzel, Ron Z.; Anderson, David R.; Whitmer, R. William; Ozminkowski, Ronald J.; Dunn, Rodney L.; Wasserman, Jeffrey and the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) Research Committee (1998). The relationship between modifiable health risks and health care expenditures. An analysis of the multi-employer HERO health risk and cost database. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 40 (10), 843-854.
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Investing in Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion, A Resource for the Pursuit of Organizational Excellence
By: Martin Shain
v How Health is “Produced” in the Workplace and the Costs of Doing Nothing to Promote It.
v The Costs and Benefits of Doing Something to Promote Health: Weighing Our Options
v The Joint Impact of HPPs and OWIs on Health and Productivity
v The Business Case for Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion
v The Business Health Investment Plan
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