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    Healthy People in a Healthy Economy: A Blueprint for Action in Massachusetts

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    Examines the recession's effects on health and the cost of chronic disease. Suggests proven strategies for schools, municipalities, state government, payers, employers, the food industry, physicians, philanthropies, and media to promote healthy behaviors

    Aiming Higher for Health System Performance: A Profile of Seven States That Perform Well on the Commonwealth Fund's 2009 State Scorecard

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    Identifies policies and practices linked to high performance in six top-ranked states and the most-improved state in 2007-09. Offers insights into improving coverage, prevention and treatment, avoidable hospital use and costs, equity, and healthy lives

    Disability and Retirement: The Early Exit of Baby Boomers from the Labor Force

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    A CBO ReportCBO11_22_LaborForce.pdf: 177 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

    Work Matters for Health

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    Provides an overview of how physical and mental health is affected by work -- the physical environment, psychosocial aspects, wages and benefits, and the need to balance responsibilities. Summarizes promising work-based strategies to improve health

    Health Policy Newsletter Dec. 09 Download Full PDF

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    Legal Solutions in Health Reform: Insurance Discrimination on the Basis of Health Status: An Overview of Discrimination Practices, Federal Law, and Federal Reform Options

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    Provides an overview of the insurance industry's discriminatory practices based on health status in designing and administering health insurance and employee health benefit plans. Discusses current federal law and interim and long-term reform options

    Creating Careers, Improving Care: A Win-Win Economic Advancement Strategy for Certified Nursing Assistants in Long-Term Care

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    Examines strategies for developing training and education programs that will facilitate career advancement for nursing assistants. Explores the link between recruitment, retention, and advancement practices and the quality of care provided by caregivers

    Factors Motivating Employee Participation in Employer-Sponsored Health Awareness Programs

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    Employers adopt worksite health promotions to reduce the incidence of preventable diseases, reduce healthcare costs, reduce absenteeism and presenteeism, and improve productivity. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the motivational factors affecting employee participation in employer-sponsored health awareness programs. The theory of planned behavior grounded the study and formed the conceptual framework. Data collection occurred through semistructured interviews with 24 participants in the northeastern United States with lived experiences in worksite health promotion. Participants answered open-ended interview questions regarding the motivations for engaging in health promotions. Data were transcribed and coded for trends and themes. During data analyses, 4 themes emerged, which included program recruitment and notification, employer commitment, employee motivations, and incentives and rewards. The implications for positive social change include the potential for employers incorporating the results to instigate enhanced employee participation in employer-sponsored health awareness programs. Higher employee rates of participation may aid employers in achieving the established benefits of worksite health promotion and may contribute to improving the health of employees

    Capping the Tax Exclusion of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: Is Equity Feasible?

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    Explores the feasibility of capping tax exemptions on premiums paid for employer-sponsored insurance without creating inequities by firm size, employees' age, and type of coverage -- by taxing benefits based on actuarial value or adjusting premiums

    Absence and Disability Management Practices for an Aging Workforce

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    The goal of Disability and Absence Management programming is to limit absence, control costs, and retain workers to maintain a productive workforce. This can include the development of supportive policies (e.g. flexible work options), manager and employee education, supportive benefit programs, return to work programs, among others. Increasingly, older workers have become a group of interest among Absence and Disability Management professionals, in part because many baby boomers are forgoing retirement and working longer. Projections suggest that by 2020 those 55 and over could account for 25% of workers. This shift is especially important given that disability prevalence increases with age – as the workforce ages, organizations will increasingly need to ensure their programming supports older workers. During the fall and winter of 2012-13, Cornell University’s Employment and Disability Institute and the Disability Management Employer Coalition (DMEC) collaborated on a survey and key informant interviews with DMEC members and conference attendees to learn more about what organizations are doing to respond to and prepare for an aging workforce
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