of our sickness-oriented health system continue to rise while the health and resultant productivity of the U.S. workforce declines. To reverse this trend, executives must acknowledge the interconnectedness between health care costs and people's vitality and productivity. This will require a change o
The radical solution to rising health-care costs
โ Scribed by Joseph F. Coates
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 125 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0745-7790
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