title: The occupational physician as corporate chief health officer.
abstract: In this era of skyrocketing health care costs, the author makes a case for corporations to include a chief health officer on their top management team. The CHO would preferably be an occupational medicine physician who can manage the delivery of health care and who can develop a corporate culture of health that promotes wellness and the prevention of disability and injury.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sperry
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce; D006801:Humans; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010819:Physician's Role