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Health risk factors as predictors of workers' compensation claim occurrence and cost

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  • Natalie V Schwatka Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Center for Health, Work, and Environment and Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Adam Atherly Department of Health Systems, Management & Policy, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Miranda J Dally Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Center for Health, Work, and Environment and Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hai Fang China Center for Health Development Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Claire vS Brockbank Segue Consulting, Denver, Colorado, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Liliana Tenney Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Center for Health, Work, and Environment and Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ron Z Goetzel Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, and Truven Health Analytics, Bethesda, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kimberly Jinnett Integrated Benefits Institute, San Francisco, California, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Roxana Witter Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Center for Health, Work, and Environment and Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Stephen Reynolds Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • James McMillen Pinnacol Assurance, Denver, Colorado, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lee S Newman Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Center for Health, Work, and Environment and Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, USA Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado, USA Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Natalie V Schwatka, Center for Health, Work and Environment, Colorado School of Public Health, 13001 E. 17th Place, 3rd Floor, Mail Stop B-119, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; natalie.schwatka{at}ucdenver.edu
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Schwatka NV, Atherly A, Dally MJ, et al
Health risk factors as predictors of workers' compensation claim occurrence and cost
Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2017;74:14-23.

Publication history

  • Received September 21, 2015
  • Revised July 11, 2016
  • Accepted July 24, 2016
  • First published August 16, 2016.
Online issue publication 
December 14, 2016

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