Health Care Cost | Depression Evaluation Measures

Health care costs measures for depression^1-3

In contrast with the worker productivity costs described above, health care costs are measures of the direct expenses of providing employee health care and preventive health programs.

Baseline  

• Determine costs and use for health care, such as screening, disability, health care costs, counseling, and treatment (e.g., medications) for depression related illness and disability
• Determine health care use and costs of employee participants before education and other programs are initiated with the same measures after operation of these programs

Process

• Periodic repeats of baseline measures

Outcome

• Assess changes in health care use and costs from baseline
• Compare health care use and costs of employee participants before education and other programs are initiated with the same measures after operation of these programs 
  • These measures may be affected by other circumstances, such as national education programs or changes in operation at the worksite, so they should be interpreted with caution