The Relationship Between Health Care Costs, Absenteeism, and Body Mass...

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport;  March 1, 2001 ;     531 words ......serious national health care problem and is...body mass index (BMI) on health care costs (HCC) and...than]27.8; female BMI's [greater than...significant predictor of health care costs. College...suggest that as BMI increases, average annual health ...

Health care evolution: New roles for family and consumer professionals

Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The health care evolution affects families in how they use and pay for health care. Communities face changes in the types of...community members make choices to use the health care system. The purpose of this paper is to describe...

Managed care: employer's influence on the health care system.

Nursing Economics;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Health care consumers and purchasers are demanding...and accessibility of services from the health care industry and its providers. Kerfoot and...merging of hospitals into integrated health care networks (p. 280). The reform momentum...

Can health insurance costs be controlled? (Symposium: Health Care)

Review of Business;  December 22, 1992 ;     700+ words ...Health care insurance has been available to employees for more than...free to employees or were offered at a very low cost. Health care insurance is no longer inexpensive. Health care costs have increased the cost of medical insurance.|1...

Quality: Will it become the benchmark for managing HEALTH CARE COSTS?

Corporate Report Wisconsin;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Measuring health care quality may prove to be the best long-term strategy for controlling health care expenses. But in the short term, businesses...double-digit increases in the cost of employee health care benefits. A Wisconsin example of how employers...

Reforming Health Care in Europe.

West European Politics;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Health care policy has been a crucible of welfare reform in Europe for a quarter...first arises from what might be called the welfare dimension of health care. Health care matters. Not often, but sometimes, it is a matter of life and death...

The Silent Health Care Revolution: The Rising Demand For Complementary...

Nursing Economics;  September 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY is currently undergoing another revolution that is essentially going unnoticed by a majority of health care professionals. Health care professionals have been preoccupied with the health care...

Only Three Percent of Health Care Costs in America Devoted to Prevention...

PR Newswire;  June 29, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Health Care Innovators Meet to Share Solutions and Ideas Linking Traditional Health Care Delivery With Community-Based Organizations...29 /PRNewswire/ -- America spends more for health care than any other nation; yet, only three percent...

Health care bills of rights

Marketplace;  February 3, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Health care -- from self-insured plans to health...Throughout the country today, we have a health care system that often limits particular services...However, we should never deny patients the health care they need. People need choices when selecting...

State feels pain from health care

Indianapolis Business Journal;  October 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Is health care making Indiana's economy sick? Spending on health care is rising faster in Indiana than it is across the...1991, the average Hoosier spent just 94 cents on health care for every dollar the average American spent. But...

A family health care system. (Editorial)

American Family Physician;  September 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ...National health care systems take on many forms and provide health care as a human right. The United States is the only...democratic nation in the Western world without a national health care system to assure equitable access to health care...

New Voice in Health Care Debate Launches.

PR Newswire;  April 6, 2006 ;     527 words ...Health Care America Favors Choice for Consumers...Control WASHINGTON, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Care America, a non-partisan, non-profit organization...common sense solutions to improving our health care system without furthering government...

Health Care I.T. Stocks Surge, but the Future is Uncertain.

Health Data Management;  February 1, 2005 ;     560 words ...Health care information technology stocks, as usual...year. The price of a marketbasket of 23 health care I.T. stocks tracked by New York-based...during the fourth quarter. A bump for health care I.T. stocks in the fourth quarter has...

Health care spending eases

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  February 12, 2004 ;     535 words ...Health care spending eases, but huge growth predicted...government said Wednesday the growth of health care spending in the United States slowed...and Medicaid Services projected that health care spending in the United States grew to...

The punishment of "health care fraud".

Journal of Law and Health;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ...I. INTRODUCTION Skyrocketing health care costs have remained an issue of national concern...for the substantial increase in the cost of health care is fraud and abuse within the health care industry. (3) The United States government reports...