title: The Occupational Health Partnership Program: a new paradigm for occupational health services.
abstract: For a variety of reasons, occupational health services at Army Material Command installations became severely strained during the 1980s. The Occupational Health Partnership Program, developed to improve this support, describes control, responsibility, and cost sharing between Army Materiel Command and Army Medical Command. This innovative approach is finding new solutions to challenging problems. The authors describe the history, principles, status, and possible future of the partnership program.
authors.affiliation: Office of the Surgeon, U.S. Army Materiel Command, Alexandria, VA 22333, USA.
authors.forename: B G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Withers
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: E T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Evenson
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Wiener
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Fortune
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Svalina
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Davila
mesh_terms: D006284:Health Plan Implementation; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008887:Military Medicine; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014481:United States