The Health and Productivity Management Toolkit is a special workplace resource created by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). ACOEM'S mission is to promote healthier, more productive workplaces, and this Toolkit offers practical advice and resources to help achieve this goal.
The Toolkit helps individuals understand the concepts of Health and Productivity Management (HPM) and the value of a healthy workforce. It was designed for physicians, nurses, health resource and health benefits professionals, insurers, employers and others who deal with health and wellness issues in the workplace.
The Toolkit provides access to video, audio and written content – including more than 1,000 pages of academic and research material – that you can use to build your skills in Health and Productivity Management.
An audio "tutor" provides instruction in each of the Toolkit's nine chapters, which include:
- Getting Started — How To Use This Site
- What is Health and Productivity Management?
- Key Elements of Health and Productivity
- Measuring Health and Productivity
- The Impact of HPM on the Workplace
- Integrating OEM, HR and Benefits
- Evidence Based Medicine
- Promoting HPM to Senior Management
- Putting it All Together — Case Studies
- Roadmap to Implementation
Each chapter includes an instructional slide presentation and a variety of other supporting documents and resources. You can return to each chapter as often as you need to fully understand the concepts. The HPM Toolkit also includes a glossary, extensive bibliography of research and scholarly articles and a variety of other educational resources. The Toolkit can be used to fulfill up to 10 Continuing Medical Education credits.
The HPM Toolkit is a subscription-based service. Subscriptions are $199 ($149 for ACOEM members). The initial subscription fee provides one year of online access to the kit, which includes periodic research updates, additional case studies and other new material. Yearly subscription fee after the initial year is $89 ($49 for ACOEM members.)
Your yearly subscription fee gives you access to the full website, which includes periodic updates. When you subscribe you will be issued a password that enables access to the site at any time.
If at any time you have questions or would like more information about the Toolkit, please visit ACOEM at www.acoem.org or call us at 847-818-1800.
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Acknowledgements
Special thanks to ACOEM's Health and Productivity Management Section for the development of this toolkit. In particular, ACOEM recognizes the sub-group of the Section who worked tirelessly on this project.
Pamela A. Hymel, MD, MPH, FACOEM, Co-Chair
Cisco Systems
Ronald R. Loeppke, MD, MPH, FACOEM, Co-Chair
Matria Healthcare Inc
Wayne N. Burton, MD, FACP, FACOEM
JP Morgan Chase
Garson M. Caruso, MD, MPH, FACOEM
Lakeview Occupational and Industrial Clinic
Raymond Fabius, MD, CPE, FACP
i-trax CHD Meridian
Fikry W. Isaac, MD, MPH, FACOEM
Johnson & Johnson
Patricia B. Rosen, MD, MPH
Wellness for Workers
Gregory R. Wagner, MD
Harvard School of Public Health
Peter H. Wald, MD, MPH, FACP, FACOEM
USAA
Philip C. Zinni, III, DO, FAOASM, MS
Harrah's Health and Wellness Center
Consultants
Doris L. Konicki, MHS
Paul Larson, MS
Staff
Doris L. Konicki, MHS
The Disease Management Association of America has singled out a study on health and productivity management in the April issue of JOEM for its 2009 Population Health Improvement Leadership Award for Outstanding Journal Article. The study, titled "Health and Productivity as a Business Strategy: A Multiemployer Study," explored methodological refinements in measuring health-related lost productivity and assessed the business implications of a full-cost approach to managing health.
Conducted by Alere, ACOEM and the Integrated Benefits Institute and funded by the National Pharmaceutical Council, the study measured productivity loss among 10 employers with 51,648 employee respondents and analyzed 1.13 million medical and pharmacy claims. Researchers found that health-related productivity costs significantly exceed medical and pharmacy costs - on average 2.3 to 1 -- and that depression, obesity, arthritis, back and neck pain and anxiety drive the majority of costs when looking at both productivity and medical and pharmacy costs. The study also found presenteeism to be a bigger drain on productivity than absenteeism.
ACOEM President Pam Hymel , MD, and ACOEM Board member Ron Leoppke, MD, were among the lead researchers on the study. Hymel and Loeppke are also co-chairs of the ACOEM Section on Health and Productivity.
