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- Title
Health Promotion in Taft-Hartley Plans.
- Authors
Langbert, Mitchell; Handel, Bernard
- Abstract
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports that health promotion programs exist at the majority of worksites in the U.S. The authors of this article investigate whether Taft-Hartley plans have adopted health promotion at the same rate as have corporate sponsors. Taft-Hartley plans are multiemployer health and pension benefit plans formed in accordance with the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947. Trusts that qualify under the act are managed by equal numbers of labor and management trustees. Firms that participate in Taft-Hartley plans do not unilaterally sponsor health promotion programs. Rather, the plans' trustees determine how contributions are to be spent in light of finances, needs and members' preferences subsequent to collective bargaining about contribution levels. This article seeks to report that Taft-Hartley plans have been slow to adopt health promotion programs. The authors argue that the plans' organizational structure and members' preferences inhibit their adoption.
- Subjects
HEALTH planning; HEALTH promotion; PUBLIC health; MEDICAL care; PENSIONS; HEALTH services administration
- Publication
Benefits Quarterly, 1994, Vol 10, Issue 1, p50
- ISSN
8756-1263
- Publication type
Article