This article, published in Health Affairs  examines employer health promotion efforts to demonstrate ways that instituting commonsense prevention measures can lead to risk reduction and cost savings and may alter the paradigm through which we view health care costs.

Goetzel, Ron Z. Do Prevention or Treatment Services Save Money? The Wrong Debate (2009). Health Affairs, 28(1), 37-41. DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.1.37 http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/28/1/37

Author: Ron Z. Goetzel