title: Use of a behavioral risk survey by employers to identify leading health problems among employees and their dependents.
abstract: In an effort to identify high-burden health conditions among employees and their families for worksite, community, and health care quality improvement interventions, The Mid-America Coalition on Health Care, with assistance from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, conducted a broad behavioral risk survey among a random sample of employees of eight participating employers and their family members. By working with an established coalition of businesses, providers, payers, and other entities with a stake in controlling health care costs, state public health officials were able to assist the business community to adopt an acceptable approach to assessment of health risk and a community approach to risk reduction.
authors.affiliation: Bureau of Health Promotion, Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Topeka, Kansas, USA.
authors.forename: D Charles
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Hunt
authors.forename: Christine Thomas
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Yonke
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D040343:Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006265:Health Care Coalitions; D006292:Health Priorities; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007615:Kansas / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D016272:Occupational Health; D016017:Odds Ratio; D011159:Population Surveillance; D016730:Program Development; D018570:Risk Assessment