title: Getting closer to the truth: overcoming research challenges when estimating the financial impact of worksite health promotion programs.
abstract: The authors describe the most important methodological challenges often encountered in conducting research and evaluation on the financial impact of health promotion. These include selection bias, skewed data, small sample size, metrics. They discuss when these problems can and cannot be overcome and suggest how some of these problems can be overcome through a creating an appropriate framework for the study, and using state of the art statistical methods.
authors.affiliation: The MEDSTAT Group, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108, USA.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Ozminkowski
authors.forename: R Z
authors.initials: RZ
authors.lastname: Goetzel
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000191:economics*; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D015983:Selection Bias; D014481:United States; D017132:Workplace / Q000191:economics