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JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 60, Issue 6, Pages 507-514Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000001305
Keywords
corporate health assessment; culture of health; health scores; health care trend; risk reduction
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Objective:Employers that strive to create a corporate environment that fosters a culture of health often face challenges when trying to determine the impact of improvements on health care cost trends. This study aims to test the stability of the correlation between health care cost trend and corporate health assessment scores (CHAS) using a culture of health measurement tool.Methods:Correlation analysis of annual health care cost trend and CHAS on a small group of employers using a proprietary CHAS tool.Results:Higher CHAS scores are generally correlated with lower health care cost trend. For employers with several years of CHAS measurements, this correlation remains, although imperfectly.Conclusion:As culture of health scores improve, health care costs trends moderate. These findings provide further evidence of the inverse relationship between organizational CHAS performance and health care cost trend.
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