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Charging employees for smoking, high cholesterol, and obesity. How do you think this would go over in your workplace? In a controversial move, Indiana-based Clarian Health Partners has announced a program of "disincentives" for employees with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high body mass index, and smokers.
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What do you do if . . . you're the only employee health professional for a work force of several thousand employees? Or there is no occupational health physician for you to work with? Or you're trained in infection control but expected to know about occupational medicine?
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More employers than ever are offering incentives for employee participation in health and disease management programs, according to a survey of 242 employers.
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A single corticosteroid injection in the wrist can offer at least a month of relief and possibly avoid surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome sufferers, according to an updated review of a dozen studies with 671 participants by Canadian researchers.
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Imagine a communitywide outbreak so pervasive that employees fell ill at work and 40% called in sick.
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The "yes means no" phenomenon was one of several challenges encountered by the team conducting a community case management pilot project for diabetes patients in Nogales, AZ.
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A disease management program helps chronically ill unfunded patients cared for by the North Broward Hospital District, with headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, FL, avoid hospitalizations and emergency department visits.
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Updated evidence-based practice guidelines from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) have been published, including a section on elbow conditions.
