Health promotion programs within the Navy Environmental Health Center
Subtitle: evolution and impact
By:  Mary S. Seymour
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
Description: In 1986, DoD established aformal health promotion policy,but it was not until 1992 that DoN components began to comply and implement health promotion programs. In 1994, Navy Medicine appointed the Navy     Environmental Health Center (NEHC) as the Health Promotion Program Manager. In 1998, due primarily to their population-based approach to health care delivery, NEHC was appointed the Program Manager for the     Clinical Epidemiology Program (CEP). This study examines the resource and programmatic role that NEHC has played in implementing health promotion programs in Navy Medicine, particularly the CEP. Interviews and a review of the literature on health promotion and clinical epidemiology were undertaken to ascertain the significance and implications of health promotion programs in relation to the overall health care strategy of Navy      Medicine. This thesis concludes that several problems affect implementation of health promotion, including the     inability to capture the total cost of the program and identify cost savings and cost avoidance; the absence of a reliable benchmark of the health status of selected populations; and the absence of data to measure the efficacy of the program. Continued implementation and support of the CEP may permit Navy Medicine to document the      significance of health promotion in enhancing population health and identify cost savings and cost avoidance directly related to health promotion efforts.
Notes: "December 1998."

Thesis advisor(s): Richard Doyle, Frank Barrett.

Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-116).

Approved for public release; distribution unlimited.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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