INTERACT is a quarterly mental health and substance abuse newsletter for employees brought to market by the Psychology Exchange (Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania). INTERACT provides 4 pages of brief solutions-oriented articles,...
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INTERACT is a quarterly mental health and substance abuse newsletter for employees brought to market by the Psychology Exchange (Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania). INTERACT provides 4 pages of brief solutions-oriented articles, covering an array of psychological topics written for the lay reader. With a subscription to INTERACT a company could upgrade its employees' thinking about psychosocial issues and help to bring mental health issues out in the open. Subscribing to a mental health newsletter is a tacit endorsement for early intervention and the de-stigmatization of psychological problems. Market tests were conducted to study target populations and sales letters. The initial response from most subscribing companies was cautious experimentation. Initial orders were fewer and thinner than expected, but encouraging. A campaign directed at a single high stress occupation, law enforcement, resulted in immediate orders.
Work accidents became a matter of societal concern in the Progressive era of Woodrow Wilson. When other contingencies of modern life were brought under social security in the New Deal reforms of the 1930s, work accide...
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Work accidents became a matter of societal concern in the Progressive era of Woodrow Wilson. When other contingencies of modern life were brought under social security in the New Deal reforms of the 1930s, work accident legislation remained separate. One possible reason was that work accidents can be controlled within industrial and chance limits. But control does not imply elimination since a risk-free environment would paralyze production. In spite of imper fections caused by low benefits and imperfect insurance arrangements, the workers" compensation legislation does help internalize the costs of accidents, but internalization of costs is only one remedy. Regulation and a much broader community responsibility are others. It is argued that regulation poses greater problems and that broader com munity responsibility may evade the issues involved in choosing the appropriate tradeoff point between production and health which will maximize social welfare.
The cost and financing of mental health services is gaining increasing importance with the spread of managed care and cost-cutting measures throughout the health care system. The delivery of mental health services thr...
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The cost and financing of mental health services is gaining increasing importance with the spread of managed care and cost-cutting measures throughout the health care system. The delivery of mental health services through structured employee assistance programs (EAPs) could be undermined by revised health insurance contracts and cutbacks in employer-provided benefits at the workplace. This study uses two recently completed national surveys of EAPs to estimate the costs of providing EAP services during 1993 and 1995. EAP costs are determined by program type, worksite size, industry, and region. In addition, information on program services is reported to determine the most common types and categories of services and whether service delivery changes have occurred between 1993 and 1995, The results of this study will be useful to EAP managers, mental health administrators, and mental health services researchers who are interested in the delivery and costs of EAP services.
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