Davidson B N
Employee Assistance and Worklife Programs, Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Mass 01803, USA.
J Clin Psychiatry. 1998;59 Suppl 2:9-12.
Employee life cycle events and behavioral health disorders impact productivity and well-being. Employers use wellness initiatives and employee assistance or work-family programs to help manage those factors that can distract employees from performing optimally. Employer-sponsored health benefits are designed to protect employees from the catastrophic costs of illness. However, today's plan designers struggle with employee and employer affordability that does not compromise quality or effectiveness. In 1990, Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Mass., shifted its strategy from an indemnity model to a managed care model that uses health maintenance organizations. Comprehensive standards are used to ensure the delivery of quality behavioral health care that is cost effective, is delivered at the clinically appropriate levels, and uses a broad continuum of treatment approaches with measurable outcomes.
员工生命周期事件和行为健康障碍会影响生产力和幸福感。雇主通过健康促进计划以及员工援助或工作与家庭计划来帮助管理那些可能使员工无法实现最佳绩效的因素。雇主赞助的健康福利旨在保护员工免受疾病带来的巨额费用影响。然而，如今的计划设计者面临着员工和雇主承受能力的问题，同时又不能在质量或效果上做出妥协。1990年，位于马萨诸塞州梅纳德的数字设备公司将其战略从赔偿模式转变为使用健康维护组织的管理式医疗模式。采用综合标准来确保提供具有成本效益、在临床适当水平上提供且使用具有可衡量结果的广泛连续治疗方法的优质行为健康护理。
