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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:17:49 EDT
- From: <DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92203.161750DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: A Question/Proposal for "Health Care Consumers"
- Distribution: usa
- References: <1992Jul13.211404.3469@newstand.syr.edu>
- <1992Jul15.181302.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> <1992Jul17.190304.10063@highlite.uucp>
- <1992Jul21.135225.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul21.135225.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu>, morris@zodiac.rutgers.edu
- says:
-
- >Actually my specialty has been proven to be efficacious and to return far
- >more money than it costs. When trained health educators are used rather
- >than persons untrained in health education, health education works -
- >people live longer and have fewer sick days. Large companies such as
- >Johnson & Johnson and AT&T have found that health education pays.
- >Unfortunately their programs have to teach their employees what they
- >should have learned as children in schooll.
-
- This is rather a stretch. Most objective evidence on the cost/benefit
- and/or cost/effectiveness of many prevention or health education programs
- do not indicate that they "return far more money than it costs". I would
- say that the jury is certainly still out on the cost/benefit and cost/eff.
- of such programs, especially in worksite settings.
-
-
- Dennis G. Shea, Penn State <<USUAL DISCLAIMER>>
- "I believe that there is social and psychological justification
- for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth....But it
- is not necessary....that the game should be played for such
- high stakes as at present." John Maynard Keynes
-