Employer and Consumer Perspectives

Rhetoric vs. reality: employer views on consumer-driven health care.

Because of rising premiums, employers are investigating new health insurance approaches that maintain workers' broad choice of providers while raising awareness of health care costs through increased patient financial responsibility. Employers' knowledge of new health plan products, including consumer-driven health plans and tiered-provider networks, has grown considerably in recent years, acco...

Consumer-directed health plans: enrollee views, early employer experience.

PURPOSE Consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) are a new health insurance product that is of growing interest to employers who are struggling to cope with rising health insurance premium costs and to consumers who are desiring more choice and engagement in their health care. This paper presents the results of a study of California consumer awareness of, and attitudes toward, CDHPs in the contex...

Consumer perspectives on food labels.

The symposium "Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) for Food Labeling" explored the scientific debate about the most appropriate DRI values to use in establishing Daily Values on food labels. An important goal of nutrition and ingredient information is to help consumers make healthful dietary choices. This summary provides highlights from recent quantitative and qualitative research on consumers' u...

Doing It the Company Way: Employer Perspectives on Workplace Supports

ignificant advances in the identification and pplication of accommodations and supports have nabled people with various disabilities to succeed n the workplace. Such advances include an array of echnologies and methodologies, including, but not imited to, assistive devices, alternative and ugmentative communication strategies, rchitectural modifications, telecommuting, retructured job assignmen...

Consumer Concerns About Biotechnology: International Perspectives