Optimal health management: strategies for functionally integrated occupational health

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Optimal health management (OHM) is a paradigm of health management that uses a functionally integrated, multidisciplinary team to create and maintain a healthy company. It was found that there was considerable variation in the average length of patient stay in the hospital and related costs. Better management and benefit administration led ultimately to a savings of $225,000 in nine months. Moreover, employees and their dependents were enthusiastic about the improved care. Another example of OHM was that of the alternative work schedule team, which designed a biocompatible schedule to overcome the very negative health effects of shift work. This led to considerable improvement in health status, sleep quality and quantity, and family and social life. Workers' compensation premiums have escalated in recent years, with cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs, complaints stemming from exposure to repetitious tasks) representing a large share of the claims. The company approached this problem by improving interactions between supervisors and their immediate employees, and by improving communication between supervisors and their immediate managers. Supervisor performance and CTD incidence were closely correlated; when training was improved, the rate of CTDs decreased. Overall, the medical department became an integrated unit within a larger occupational health services unit. Indeed, occupational medicine can show industry that it can add value to the company's operations, and occupational physicians are the main actors in that developing drama. (Consumer Summary produced by Reliance Medical Information, Inc.)

Methods, Evaluation, Economic aspects, Employment, Occupational health services, Medicine, Industrial, Industrial medicine, Occupational physicians

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Projections of asbestos-related disease 1980-2009

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In asbestos workers who are exposed to nontrivial amounts of asbestos it is forecasted that there will be 19,000 cases of mesothelioma and 55,000 cases of lung cancer between 1980-2009. Approximately 65,000 men in the United States, who have been exposed to heavy amounts of asbestos, are presently diagnosed as having asbestosis.

Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Asbestos products, Health aspects, Forecasts and trends, Cancer, Asbestos industry, Asbestosis, Mesothelioma, Pneumoconiosis, Black lung disease

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