title: Designing an incentive based health promotion program.
abstract: 1. A health incentive program can be an effective intervention for reducing employee population risk and altering health care utilization patterns. 2. An incentive based health promotion program rewards employees for performing a selected set of behaviors. 3. Collecting supporting data (benchmarking, needs assessment, organization data, published data) provides the foundation for the health incentive program design. 4. Choose an incentive appropriate to the employee population and worksite culture.
authors.affiliation: Honeywell, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA.
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Sharkey
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Bey
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods*; D015397:Program Evaluation