Value-based design: a new powerful perspective for worksite health promotion.

The growth in recognition of the employee's role in health improvement is driving the development of new perspectives for managing the health of individuals in defined populations, such as a working population. Value-Based Design is one of these newer perspectives and is introduced in this edition of The Art of Health Promotion. The core of this approach uses data to design benefits and incentives that are then implemented effectively and tracked as to their outcome.

The value of dividends in health: a call to align stakeholders.

Objective: The purpose of this paper is to describe the philosophy and utility of value-based designs (VBDs), with an eye toward defining a pathway for a shift to VBDs across US businesses involved in the health care discussion.

Methods: A 12-question survey of 36 companies that had been identified as emerging leaders in health and productivity management was administered by telephone interview and, later, by online interview. Information collected included company size, business sector, prevention, wellness, data accessibility and integration, condition management, C-suite visibility, and culture of health.

Wellness, hard to define, reduces trend up to 4 percent.

The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify a common language for "wellness" and a correlating health cost trend reduction through incentive-driven prevention and wellness. Mapping the results of the survey with the trend lines reported by innovative employers could uncover increased financial value in health investments. A 10-question survey was designed for telephone interviews with 26 businesses (Innovators) from the Board of the Center for Health Value Innovation; a paper-based survey with the same questions was completed by attendees at a seminar.