Health Services And Health Hazards: The Employee's Need To Know: The Employee's Need To Know (springer Series On Industry And Health Care)

Close followers of the evolution of the Series on Industry and Health Care will recognize in this fourth volume some continuity and some change. The essential concept behind the series remains: here, as before, we are looking to private industry as a potential agent of change in the American health care delivery system. We have made some structural accommodations, however, to comments received from readers in industry and in health services. The original concept of a topical monograph supplemented by a separate hardbound volume of background papers has yielded to the present formula in which each volume is complete in itself. The series continues to draw much of its material from interdisciplinary working conferences convened by the Bos­ ton University Center for Industry and Health Care. Rather than publish confer­ ence proceedings, we have again undertaken to analyze the discussions and to integrate with them some timely background materials. Readers have found this format a major improvement over traditional conference reports and sum­ maries. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 3-12 Health Care Advertising and Marketing: The Lady, or the Tiger?....Pages 13-46 Solicitation, HMOs, and Employee Choices....Pages 47-59 Occupational Health Hazards: Management and Labor in a Vital Interaction....Pages 60-82 Summing Up....Pages 83-86 Issues for the Future....Pages 87-90 Back Matter....Pages 91-97 Front Matter....Pages 99-99 Advertising by Health Care Professionals: Issues and Prospects....Pages 101-107 The Consumer Comes First in Professional Advertising....Pages 108-113 The Availability of Health Information....Pages 114-116 Going Public on Health Care Reform....Pages 117-119 Hospitals Face a Marketing Future....Pages 120-123 Eyeglasses: The Public’s Right to Know....Pages 124-127 ERISA: An Opportunity for Better Communication of Employee Health Benefit Plans....Pages 128-133 HCHP Successes and Failures in Communicating Information to Its Publics....Pages 134-145 Information Barriers to HMO Development....Pages 146-152 Barriers to Promoting Prepaid Dental Programs....Pages 153-155 Workplace Health Hazards: The Responsibilities to Assess, to Report, to Control....Pages 156-162 The Challenge of Informing Workers of Job-Related Health Hazards....Pages 163-172 Revealing the Invisible Tort: The Employer’s Duty to Warn....Pages 173-181 Back Matter....Pages 182-184 Compilation of conference papers on health services and occupational health hazards in the USA, and the health care related information needs of employees - comments on consumer protection legislation permitting physician advertising and health care marketing, and discusses the employer's role in private sector information dissemination relating to occupational diseases, occupational pension schemes and health care costs, etc. Diagram, graphs and references. Conference held in Boston 1977 Nov 4 and 5