Coulter Christopher H
University of Southern California, USA.
Benefits Q. 2006;22(1):23-33.
Employers' past solutions to rising health benefit costs--adopting managed care strategies, cost shifting to employees and reducing benefits-are no longer effectively controlling costs and are depressing the value of health benefits for employee recruitment and retention. An alternative strategy is to implement health management approaches that improve the health status of employees. These programs reduce medical costs and have a documented positive impact on workers' compensation, disability costs, absenteeism and productivity. Further, this approach is complementary to health care consumerism as a strategy for health improvement and benefit cost reduction and results in improved employee health, outlook and satisfaction.
雇主们过去应对不断上涨的健康福利成本的方法——采用管理式医疗策略、将成本转嫁给员工以及削减福利——已不再能有效控制成本，并且正在压低健康福利在员工招聘和留用方面的价值。一种替代策略是实施能改善员工健康状况的健康管理方法。这些项目降低了医疗成本，并且已证明对工伤赔偿、残疾成本、旷工率和生产率有积极影响。此外，这种方法作为一种改善健康和降低福利成本的策略，与医疗保健消费主义相辅相成，还能改善员工的健康、前景和满意度。
