Partnering for Prevention with Workplace Health Promotion Programs
Mayo Clin Proc., April 2011, 86(4):335-337
4 Pages Posted: 22 May 2012
Date Written: April 1, 2011
Abstract
Progressive, well-managed, responsible companies are primed to become prevention partners with the medical community. The business community needs the medical community to integrate wellness into the workplace. However, the medical community also needs the business community. Payers compensate medical providers for diagnostic and treatment care. Employers’ health promotion programs emphasize behavioral change, which is undercompensated in the medical community but pays off in the business community. A business-medical partnership opens a new path to achieving a greater balance between prevention and treatment of disease. Wellness is the common goal
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