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A cost-benefit analysis of a California county's back injury prevention program.
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- Economic Evaluation of Occupational Safety and Health Interventions From the Employer Perspective: A Systematic Review.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2018Pooled it
- Economic evaluations of occupational health interventions from a company's perspective: a systematic review of methods to estimate the cost of health-related productivity loss.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2011Pooled it
- Adopting wearables to customize health insurance contributions: a ranking-type Delphi.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2022Article
- What People Really Think About Safety around Horses: The Relationship between Risk Perception, Values and Safety Behaviours.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
- The cost-effectiveness of a back education program for firefighters: a case study.The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association · 2004Article
- Evaluation of interventions to prevent injuries: an overview.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 1998Article
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Abstract
Back-related injuries have become a major health problem in the workplace, affecting as many as 35 percent of the work force and accounting for about 25 percent of all compensation claims. This study evaluates a back injury prevention program among employees in a northern California county in 1989-90. Six divisions of the county government were selected for the study because they had the highest prevalence of back pain experienced and the most back-related injuries in recent years. Four of the six divisions were randomly selected as the intervention group and the remaining two, the control group. Overall, 77 percent or 205 of the targeted employees in the intervention group participated in the study. The intervention group was given an identical health risk assessment (HRA) before and after the 1-year back injury prevention program that offered employees a combination of education, training, physical fitness activities, and ergonomic improvement. The control group was neither given the HRA nor offered the program. The back injury and cost data of both the control and intervention groups were collected before and after the 1-year intervention. The results showed a modest overall decline in back pain prevalence rates, but significant improvement in satisfaction and reduction in risky behaviors. Cost-benefit analysis showed the net benefit of introducing back injury prevention program was $161,108, and the return on investment is 179 percent. Therefore, the study offers suggestive evidence for the initial benefits of a back injury prevention program and lends support to the widely held belief that health promotion in the workplace can reduce employee health risks, increase healthful behaviors and attitudes, and improve attitudes toward the employer organization.Whether such intervention will continue to reap benefits in future years depends, to a large extent,on a favorable work environment and the maintenance and continuation of positive behavioral changes.
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