| Autor: |
Vince Smith, Tim Dunnagan, George W. Haynes |
| Rok vydání: |
1999 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Health Promotion International. 14:43-51 |
| ISSN: |
1460-2245 |
| DOI: |
10.1093/heapro/14.1.43 |
| Popis: |
SUMMARY During the past two decades there has been a rapid increase in the number of wellness activities within public and private companies. A rationale for implementing worksite wellness programs has been the assumption that wellness programming can contain health-related costs. This investigation examined the relationship between health insurance costs and employee wellness program participation using a sample of 1757 university employees over a 3-year period. Based upon empirical models and analytic techniques that are appropriate for these investigations, the authors suggest that voluntary wellness programs may face a serious adverse selection problem in that relatively unhealthy individuals may self-select into wellness programming. Specifically, the authors show that employees who participate in worksite wellness programming incur higher rather than lower health claims costs. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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