This article describes the rationale for health promotion and disease management (DM) activities in the workplace. It also reviews the trends that are driving DM in the workplace, such as increased healthcare costs and reduced length of stay in the hospital setting. Specific discussion of DM in...

The impact of migraine is substantial for both the individual who suffers from it and society in general in terms of lost work hours, medication costs and healthcare usage. Many different forms of treatment are available for migraine, including biobehavioural approaches such as relaxation...

The Internet's information capabilities and benefits to commerce have been proven but these results have an uncertain relationship to healthcare, managed care and disease management. The highly fragmented structure of the US healthcare industry presents strategic and operational issues, which...

`Health and disease management' is a clinical improvement process aimed at ensuring that the best practices known to medical science are incorporated with minimal variation over the entire continuum of care. The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) is an academic, integrated...

Objective: The objective of the study was to develop a procedure to distribute health resources among treatments for the primary prevention of coronary heart disease based on efficiency and equity. Design and Setting: Two procedures to manage pharmaceutical resources for the primary prevention...

Case management is an evolving healthcare process and role. Confusion about the definition and scope of case management has arisen because of the diversity of ways the role has been implemented and the changing healthcare landscape within which case managers function. From its early heritage in...

Objective: To assess and compare the costs and effectiveness of different vaccination strategies against hepatitis B in Switzerland. Design: A birth cohort of 85 000 individuals was followed over their lifetime, using a decision-tree analysis. Published data were used to simulate the risk of...

Objective: To examine the utility of a self-reported health perception assessment as a screening tool to predict high near-term utilisation of healthcare services. Design and setting: Prospective cohort study in a Midwest US commercial managed-care population. Participants completed a...

Objective: To determine whether vaccination against influenza in the Academic Medical Centre (AMC) of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, may lead to an economic benefit by avoiding the loss in productivity associated with an outbreak of influenza illness among its employees. Design: A...

The evaluation of outcome of management of patients with angina pectoris is now inextricably linked with an assessment of quality of life. Angina pectoris, as a manifestation of coronary heart disease, is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in many countries. Optimal management of patients...