This presentation assembles information, including case study examples, showing how injury prevention and control can be integrated into managed care settings. It recommends specific injury prevention strategies and describes innovative ways that managed care organizations have implemented them. It explains how managed care organizations, injury prevention professionals, and purchasers of health care services can actively participate in making injury prevention part of health care services routinely delivered to children and families. The process of gathering this information began with a review of the literature (including conference proceedings) and discussions with injury prevention professionals to identify important strategies for promoting safety and case study examples of childhood injury prevention activities undertaken by managed care organizations. Additional case studies were developed by searching the websites of several national managed care organizations. This project demonstrates that there are many ways in which managed care organizations can promote health and safety among enrollees and within their communities. A set of fact sheets is available that describes the project’s results.
Learning Objectives: 1. Identify ways that managed care organizations, both idependently and through collaboration, can promote childhood injury
Keywords: Managed Care, Injury Prevention
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: CSN Economics and Insurance Resource Center, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.