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Health Care Cost | Flu & Pneumonia Evaluation Measures

Health care costs measures for adult immunization1-4

In contrast with the worker productivity costs described above, health care costs are measures of the direct medical expenses of providing employee health care and preventive health programs.

Baseline  

  • Determine costs and use for health care, such as disability, health care costs, and immunizations for vaccine-preventable diseases such as influenza related illness and disability
  • Determine the health care use and costs of employees before and after a vaccine-preventable disease program such as an influenza education program or vaccination campaign

Process

  • Periodic repeats of baseline measurements

Outcome

  • Assess changes in health care use and costs from baseline
  • Compare health care use and costs of employees before and after a vaccine-preventable disease program such as an influenza education program or vaccination campaign

References

1.  Campbell KP, Lanza A, Dixon R, Chattopadhyay S, Molinari N, Finch RA, editors. A Purchaser’s Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: Moving Science into Coverage. Washington, DC: National Business Group on Health; 2006.

2.  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Framework for program evaluation in public health. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1999;48(No. RR-11): 1-40.

3.  Matson Koffman DM, Lanza A, Campbell KP. A Purchaser’s Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: A tool to improve health care coverage for prevention. Preventing Chronic Disease, April 2008; 5(2).

4.  Goetzel RZ, Ozminkowski RJ. Program evaluation. In: O’Donnell MP, editor. Health promotion in the workplace, 3rd edition. Albany, NY: Delmar Thomson Learning; 2002. p 116-165.

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