| Title: |
Making the business case for value-based health care purchasing [electronic resource] / Ronald C. Kessler. |
| Author(s)/Name(s): |
Kessler, Ronald C. |
| Publisher: |
[Bethesda, Md. : National Institutes of Health, 2008] |
| Related Names: |
National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. |
| Series: |
BSSR lecture series |
| Language: |
eng |
| Electronic Links: |
http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?14500 |
| MeSH Subjects: |
Cost of Illness |
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Occupational Health |
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Efficiency, Organizational --economics |
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Employer Health Costs |
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Health Benefit Plans, Employee --economics |
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United States |
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Lectures |
| Summary: |
(CIT): The presentation reviews recent research carried out by a team of researchers at Harvard Medical School to quantify the workplace costs of illness and the human capital value from the employer perspective of expanded outreach and treatment. A survey tool known as the WHO Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ), which is now widely-used in workplace Health Risk Appraisal surveys, is described. An example is presented of the HPQ being used to select an intervention target and evaluate the employer return-on-investment of an innovative condition-specific outreach and best-practices treatment program. The presentation closes with a discussion of future directions in workplace social epidemiological research on the costs of illness and the cost-effectiveness of diverse treatment interventions. |
| Notes: |
Title from title screen (viewed July 12, 2008). |
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Streaming video (1 hr., 12 min. : sd., col.). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Open-captioned. |
| NLM Unique ID: |
101475718 |
| Other ID Numbers: |
(DNLM)CIT:14500 |
