Health risks and group-level health care expenditures.
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This study uses the HERO database in which 46,026 employees met all inclusion criteria for the analysis. The purpose was to assess the relationship between modifiable health risks and total health care expenditures for a large group of employees. This study is different than Research Project Two which examined individual health care expenditures as the outcome. Here the outcome is the total cost impact of a given health risk.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- American journal of health promotion : AJHP
دوره 15 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000