The following assessment of program strengths and weaknesses has been abstracted from reviews by the Task Force on Program Selection of The Health Project. Where weaknesses are postulated, it must be taken into account that the review Task Force is very critical, that no programs are perfect, that the Award Winning programs have been selected from over 300 candidate programs and represent the very best, that the materials reviewed may have been incomplete, that suggested deficiencies may have resulted from incomplete understanding of the program by the reviewers or that any problems may have been corrected since the time of review.
Individual feedback is provided through personalized letters and graphic progress reports.
Healthtrac is a three time winner of the C. Everett Koop National Health Awards. Repeat winners are only allowed to compete in alternate years, and a new submission must contain solid overall work and also substantial documentation of progress since the prior submission. Reviewers noted continued improvement of an award winning program, with addition of data on the high risk program in multiple chronic disease areas and the Babytrac Prenatal Program. Development of techniques to predict medical costs in the following year allowed channeling of subjects into appropriate interventions. Behavioral techniques are superb.