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Innovative coverage of health promotion, clinical preventive services, and other coverage issues in the private sector.
(Archived Project)
Investigator (PI): Knab, Sarah
Performing Organization (PO): (Current): Partnership for Prevention
Supporting Agency (SA): United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
Initial Year: 1996
Final Year: 1999
Record Source/Award ID: ASPE/ASPEHP96
Abstract: Despite the importance of private sector employers in shaping the current healthcare market, the views of this group on the provision of a variety of clinical preventive services and what their health plans currently provide have not been adequately described. In addition, the factors which influence their decisions to include or exclude such services have not been characterized. In collaboration with the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) researchers are forming a partnership with Partnership for Prevention to support the commissioning of a set of expert papers on the clinical preventive service benefits offered by employer-sponsored health plans. These papers are intended to meet two objectives: (1) to characterize the trends and decision processes occurring within the private sector; and (2) to evaluate the impact of government information on this issue in the private sector. As the government is investing its resources in producing and disseminating information designed to encourage the appropriate use of clinical preventive services, it is important to know how its customers in the private sector perceive and use such information.
MeSH Terms:
  • Decision Making, Organizational
  • Government
  • * Health Promotion
  • Humans
  • Information Services
  • Insurance Coverage /*statistics & numerical data
  • Managed Care Programs /*statistics & numerical data
  • * Preventive Medicine
  • Private Sector
  • United States
Keywords:
  • research support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Country: United States
State: District of Columbia
Zip Code: 20036
UI: 98401040
Project Status: Archived