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  • Title: Barriers to implementation of workplace health interventions: an economic perspective.
    Author: Cherniack M, Lahiri S.
    Journal: J Occup Environ Med; 2010 Sep; 52(9):934-42. PubMed ID: 20798640.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: To identify insurance related, structural, and workplace cultural barriers to the implementation of effective preventive and upstream clinical interventions in the working age adult population. METHODS: Analysis of avoided costs from perspective of health economics theory and from empiric observations from large studies; presentation of data from our own cost-plus model on integrating health promotion and ergonomics. RESULTS: We identify key avoided costs issues as a misalignment of interests between employers, insurers, service institutions, and government. Conceptual limitations of neoclassical economics are attributable to work culture and supply-driven nature of health care. DISCUSSION: Effective valuation of avoided costs is a necessary condition for redirecting allocations and incentives. Key content for valuation models is discussed.
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